The film deals with the true events which happened in 1949 in Italy, when then schoolteacher Pier Paolo Pasolini was accused of having seduced three paesan boys.

In 1949, schoolteacher Pier Paolo Pasolini is accused of statutory rape. No complaint has been lodged: the carabinieri act only basing themselves on rumors going around. As a result, Pier Paolo is both excluded from the communist party and banned from teaching. Forced to leave Friuli, he chooses to go to Rome. His mother, who has accompanied him, becomes a cleaning lady there but, for his part, the young man cannot find work.—Guy Bellinger