At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously developed schizophrenia. To identify the causes of her condition, he employs psychoanalytic methods to dig into her sexual past, despite objections by the old-fashioned chief physician.

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• Giuliana De Sio
• Julian Sands
• Erland Josephson
• Milena Vukotić
• Didi Perego
• Francesca Ventura
• Stefano Lescovelli
• Massimo Venturiello