Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...

Cast & crew

Damiano Damiani

Director

Catherine Spaak

Claudia

Jean Sorel

Alberto

Florinda Bolkan

Greta

Gabriella Boccardo

Viola

Gigi Proietti

Pietro

Luigi Casellato

Alberto's friend

G

Gino Lavagetto

Priest

Sergio Graziani

Greta's boyfriend

M

Maria Luisa Bavastro

Fausta

Franco Leo

Viola's friend

G

Gaetano Imbró

Viola's boyfriend

G

Guglielmo Bogliani

Luciano Catenacci

Franco Giornelli

Alberto's brother

Nello Riviè

R

Roberto Rigamonti

M

Margherita Simonini

María Cuadra

Marina

Malisa Longo

Girl in Blue Bikini (uncredited)

A

Anna Maria Perego

Alberto's mother (uncredited)