After many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property and delve into family correspondence. But is it worth bringing up the past? A difficult Sicilian history against the backdrop of the mafia and drugs.
スイスらしき村のスタジオで、ポーランド人監督のジェルジーやハンガリー出身のプロデューサー・ラズロらの撮影スタッフは、「パッション」という作品をビデオ撮影していた。その作品は、レンブラントやドラクロワの名画を、俳優たちに様々な扮装をさせたり裸でカメラの前で静止させたりして再現するというもの。だが、監督が光の具合に不満を露わにしてNGを連発したり、予算超過で製作中止の危機に陥っていた。ジェルジーは工場従業員のイザベルとホテルの女主人ハンナの間で揺れながら作品を完成させようと模索するが…。
Ketty, fidanzata di Carlo
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Woman in black (uncredited)
Stefano Argenti, an ambitious advertising executive, meets a curious hippie named Count Mateo Tiepolo and they form a strange bond. Having gained Stefano's confidence, Tiepolo reveals that he wants to kill his domineering brother. He suggests that Stefano carry out the killing and in exchange he offers to murder Luisa, Stefano's wife who is a barrier to his career and his affair with Fabienne, a model. Argenti is more curious than shocked but decides to reject the bizarre offer. However, a short-time later, his wife is strangled to death by an intruder and he becomes the prime suspect. By withholding evidence that could prove his innocence. Mateo blackmails Stefano into keeping his part of the bargain. But there is a twist ...
