Death disguised as a journalist visits Gianni an old senile Italian who lives in reclusion in a home for the elderly. Before completing his mission the death leaves a little time to the old patient to tell him the story he lived and wrote in a manuscript. He seeks primarily to unravel the mystery of a sentence that the Italian left lying in his writing: "All is in Bab El fella." Gianni refuses at first, then finally acceptes and begins to tell the story leaving the mystery to the end. But the events will tire his heart and the Italian dies at the end ofa heart attack. Will he finish the story and issue its outcome or will he take the mystery with him forever ...