New Delhi, July 26 -- "In this hell, on this planet, full of hospitals, asylums, cemeteries, factories, barracks and buses, the brain slowly leaves us. It goes on strike."

Lulù Massa (Gian Maria Volonte ) might tell himself he's at the psychiatric ward to meet an old coworker. But he's really there to measure himself against Militina (Salvo Randone), to compare his fraying sanity with an officially sanctioned mental health patient. The conversation, though, doesn't go to plan, with Militina calmly batting away whatever convictions he's still left with. "Would you like to know what we produced at the factory?" the older man asks. "This I know," Lulù says-but he can't come up with much more than "I make pieces." Their conversatio...