Tino Carraro

A newly widowed rich American woman arrives at her Italian villa, and two seductive step-siblings exploit her loneliness and ingratiate themselves into her life, but their true motives threaten her sanity and life.

In Versillia's sandy beaches during the summer of 1956, a gawky adolescent, Sandro, spends his vacation by the sea, along with his family and his intriguingly beautiful sister-in-law.

Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth, and the stern but evil Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's...