Michelangelo Placido

Italie 1609. Accusé de meurtre, Le Caravage a fui Rome et s’est réfugié à Naples. Soutenu par la puissante famille Colonna, Le Caravage tente d’obtenir la grâce de l’Église pour revenir à Rome. Le Pape décide alors de faire mener par un inquisiteur, l’Ombre, une enquête sur le peintre dont l’art est jugé subversif et contraire à la morale de l’Église.

"Tomorrow, I won't be alive anymore," Francesco tersely tells his family, gathered for dinner. He has decided to commit suicide because he can't bear living without his wife, who died three months earlier, and can't imagine the idea of getting used to the pain. After the initial shock, his parents and his sisters try to make him change his mind.

When a modern Ulysses, struggling with PTSD, wakes up without memory in a post-apocalyptic desert, an alleged Calypso tries to help him uncover the truth.