
A man returns to the place where his father was murdered and tries to find closure. But he finds himself in a similar predicament as his late father instead.

Bernardo Bertolucci, along with co-scenarist Gianni Amico, used Dostoievski's 1846, pre-imprisonment novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which they moved to Italy and updated to the pro-Vietcong student-protest present.