Diary of a Forgetful Man shows us 1978, the year in which the Italian Red Brigades kidnapped the Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro. Those were fateful days for the Italian nation: Pope Paul VI implored, the UN and countless other actors were on tenterhooks as letters from Aldo Moro and communiqués from the Brigades appeared. The country was discussing the end, the means. And there were other underlying questions: what is the intimacy of the debate? Are the actions premeditated, do they govern themselves? Can a movement be transformed, who transforms it? These are, precisely, the latent questions here. This novel, based on Moro's letters, creates a post-revolutionary (perhaps Mexican) reality to pose the transformation of a utopia. The moral crossroads of those who defend or attack it are probably the same.