Adapted from the ninth chapter of the novel "Controcorrente" (1884) by Joris Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation.
| Directing | Carmelo Bene | Director |
| Writing | Carmelo Bene | Adaptation |
| Writing | Joris-Karl Huysmans | Novel |
| Crew | Mauro Contini | Cinematography |
| Editing | Mauro Contini | Editor |