The burning passion will overwhelm two women with diametrically opposed lives — one an aspiring novice and the other a failed actress — until a tragic and unexpected epilogue.
Patrizia's apparently peaceful life is marked by the greatest horror: incest. Her constant requests for help from her mother and the outside world will go unheard, causing the family to implode into a black hole.
It is the nightmare of loneliness and poverty that has tormented Anna Maria's existence since childhood and convinced her that there is only one way forward to be happy: marry a rich man, kill him, and inherit his fortune.