Two friends in first-century Rome overcome rivalry and disagreement to help kidnap a hermaphrodite demi-god from a temple - but his death sees one of them punished with the curse of impotence. Federico Fellini's drama, starring Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born and Salvo Randone. In Italian and Latin.

After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.