Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.
It is the last day on Earth. The rich loaded all the edible organisms that exist on Earth to their escape ships. Now the only remaining edible thing on the planet is an egg.
