The person who gave him that task is Vasco, a corrupt policeman commissioned to obtain compromising material by some high-ranking people in exchange for money.

The man, now blind, agrees to help the boy and sends him to Cammello, another old acquaintance with knowledge of Roman crime recently released from prison on the grounds of his terminal illness.

Cammello returns home, discovers the transceiver there and then goes to Tiburtina station, which is in chaos after many train cancellations due to fires.

At the police station, Manuel sees on television reports of the politician filmed at the orgy refusing to resign, due to a lack of evidence corroborating rumors of possible sex scandals.

In the closing credits, it is revealed that corpses of Polniuman and Cammello are taken to the morgue, while Daytona's body ends up crushed to pulp in a junkyard inside the car in which he has been locked.

Adagio is the final installment of Sollima's Roman crime trilogy, following his 2012 film ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards and Suburra in 2015.

[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[15] Variety called the film "a solidly assembled yarn about the on-the-ground consequences of a moral breakdown at the heart of the state".