Noblemen, new-rich, politicians, criminals, reporters, actors, decadent offspring of noble families, priests, artists, true and fake intellectuals… All of them are absorbed by modern Babylon, while they are weltering in pleasure on the backdrop of ancient palaces, huge villas and magnificent terraces. Apathetic and disappointed 65-year-old Jep Gambardella, a writer and a journalist, who never parts with a glass of gin and tonic, watches this parade of influential but empty people. This vertiginous movie about vanishing moral guidelines unfolds on the background of Roman summer.