Interrogation on the notion of decadence(s) through the history and through the perspective of analysts and artists to decipher the crisis of civilization in progress.

First the orgy, then the downfall: decadence is the beginning of the end, it is suspected, for civilizations and cultural epochs. The film begins in the world of the ancient Romans, tells of their binges and lusts and follows the myth of the downfall of cultures through the art epoch of decadence and the fin de siècle to the present day.—Ulf Kjell Gür