In the age of the greatest sick of boredom and addiction to social networks, Ampelio Bandini finds the inspiration to write his first novel. He will publish the book-confession of an unusual compiler of paper placemats met by chance in an inn in the Val d’Orcia, in Tuscany. The diffusion of that history, however, in a dystopian Confederate State of United Europe, would have had dramatic consequences. In the pages of Bandini there was not only the confession of one or more crimes but also the premonition of a modern plague that in a few years would have unleashed a series of unfortunate events in the civilized West.

"That infamous dinner" is a grotesque-comic parody about the many personalities that populate the debates on the web. As in the viral contents, unreliable storytellers, tragicomic facts and characters converge in the novel, unstoppable streams of consciousness in a literary pastiche from prose to poetry, from chivalric poem to melodrama, welcoming the most vivid expressions of the Italian language. The reader will find himself in a dark and hostile literary environment of clear Sciascian and Gaddian inspiration, where to solve the cheat (or more cheating) he will not have to leave anything to chance and will have to resort to his best investigative skills.