Fame, murder, and adultery intersect with fantasy when the beautiful and ambitious heiress Evora seduces her young lover, Gennaro, into a plot to murder her famous husband, Dante, whom she sees as an obstacle to her aspirations.
Gennaro, a naive interloper caught in the middle of this triangle, succumbs to Evora’s designs and soon finds himself gripped in her trappings of lust and passion. Evora, who could have had anything she wanted, sinks into a pit of despair, driven by ambitions that pull her into a downward spiral that knows no bottom.
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