Guido Piovene

A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.

The nun tells the priest about her past and then a long flashback begins...

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy.