Silvia De Vietri

The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.

When the swindler La Spada and his accomplice José come out of jail in Madrid, they decide to pull a really great swindle: nothing less than to discover and sell a third picture of the famous Goya's Maya. They engage the renowed Scorcelletti who can imitate any picture and who lives in Rome. Afterwards, with the help of the beautiful Eva, they convince the celebrated art critic Francisco Montiel of the existance of a third Maya and let him find the picture. When the swindlers are on the point of selling the faked maya to an American millionaire, Scorcelli comes back from Rome to sell one of his six other maya pictures.

이제 막 결혼식을 마친 신혼부부 이반과 완다는 로마 근교로 신혼여행을 떠난다. 그런데 완다는 로마에 도착하자마자 자신이 좋아하는 소설의 주인공 ‘백인 추장’을 찾아 무작정 길을 나선다. 한 부부의 짧은 여행담으로 당시 이탈리아 사회의 분위기와 불안정한 심리를 담아낸다. 1952년 베니스영화제 경쟁부문 상영