Año de 1589, en el monasterio de Santa Margarita, Monza. Era solo una mujer, que ansiaba amar y ser amada. Una diabólica conspiración para desposeerla de su gran fortuna, la llevaría a sufrir la peor de las penas.
A small town in Italy is about to celebrate their patron saint. The city is full of people with different problems. A Communist in existentialist crisis that also must take care of his mentally ill wife. A woman who is tired of her husband's inability to show emotions and therefore more and more often slips into the world of dreams. A perverse butcher engaged in sex with the meat he sells when he's not peeping on young girls. A girl who became pregnant after having sex with her father. In this town a mysterious stranger show up and who turns on several of the inhabitants lives.
