Menti, a tough, gritty detective comes home from the bar only to discover Petrulive, his old partner, in his apartment. Together they must solve a mystery revolving around the assassination of a mysterious character, Charlie Charlison.

Menti is miraculously revived after his suicide attempt and tries to make sense of the events following Charlie Charlison's murder. However things aren't like he originally thought as a new player reveals himself in the plot.

Petrulive, left mute and paralyzed, tries to conceive a plan to stop The Prodigal Son for good.

Chronicles the events that lead to Charlie Charlison's untimely death employing a cinéma vérité approach.

Told in three parts, the film serves as a metaphor for the stages of life and presents itself as a determinist statement piece from a philosophical point of view.