Italian housewife vs. Romanian mistress in a jealousy-fueled psychosexual nightmare.
Married Lorenzo, a modest property developer, Tiziana Gregori (Roberta Gemma) leads a double life in which passion is but a distant memory and dedication to Pauline son all the time and energy available. Despite the disappointment of the marital relationship, Tiziana is still very much in love with her husband and feeding him a feeling of morbid jealousy, generated serious doubt on his loyalty. Lorenzo in fact, secretly entertains an emotional relationship with Martina, a young Romanian girl by the ambiguous identity, which replaces his wife at any time of leisure. As often happens in life, however, fate can play some nasty surprises and turn any certeza into something very different from what it seems.
Acting
Roberta Gemma's unraveling is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Salieri's controlled sleaze builds dread through restraint.
Director
Mario Salieri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Salieri, a legendary Italian director, brings art-house composition to erotic thriller territory—this is '90s Euro-cinema DNA in 2011.
The Romanian mistress trope reflects real post-EU expansion anxieties in Italian domestic life, weaponized here as psychological horror.
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