Giulia love her young lover, an architect, that she’ll do sexual favors for influential people to help him. Anna, the younger sister, returns from college and is abused by the architect. But she will not allow things to stay that way.
The story is about a youth named Massimo Monaldi, who, living in Rome, is a part-time college student who has some involvement in the protests that occur at his university. Massimo is also involved with drugs and he sometimes steals to make a living and support his habit (the theft of a tobacco box is very important to the story). Among his associates are his girlfriend, Cinzia, who comes from a wealthy family, and he has a wealthy male friend named Rudy who is very naive as well as strangely pampered by his overly-doting mother. Both families don’t approve of their relationship with Massimo.
A rich man gathers together friends and relatives at the abandoned theatre he owns, but the party isn’t fun for long since apparently one of them is a murderer.
American Raphael talks his colleague at the Parisian University into spending his summer at the family’s country mansion. But once there Raphael seduces and plays the sisters and mother against each other – until everyone is revealed at their very worst. As it turns out – that was Raphael’s intention all along – because his own torrid past is deeply rooted in their family’s dirty history.
