Un colpo da Re

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.

After a rich mine worker dies in mine accident, his heirs gather in his house to hear the reading of the will.

Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.

A woman is chased onto the ramparts of a castle by a gun-toting figure. She stumbles and falls to her death. Barbara, the mentally unbalanced owner of the castle, is the main suspect. However, there is no proof against her and the murders continued. But not everything is quite as it seems. The film is set in the Balsorano Castle and is shot in expressionistic black-and-white.