- Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.
- Sandra returns to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood, bringing her American husband Andrew. She wishes to pay homage to her father who died in Auschwitz when she was still very young. In Volterra, Andrew meets Sandra's brother Gianni for the first time and soon realizes that Sandra and Gianni have a secret from their childhood.—Yepok
- First Prize Golden Lion Award/Venice Film Festival: Tortured by complexes and frustrations which make her volatile and unstable, Sandra Dawson returns. with her American husband Andrew, to her native Volterra, in Italy, to the family home which she had fled as a young girl. Her younger brother Gianni also returns. The house is to be given to the city as a memorial to their father, a prominent Jewish scientist who was killed in a Nazi concentration camp. They also reunite with their aged and ill mother and her second husband Gilardini, the administrator of the estate. Sandra's real reason for returning is the suspicion that her mother and Gilardini plotted to arrange her father's deportation and death. Unable to understand Sandra's obsession, Andrew leaves her, and she turns to Gianni for help--and realizes that his interest is incestuous.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
- After a farewell party, Sandra Dawson and her American husband Andrew travel to her hometown in the province of Volterra for a homage of the locals to her father, a prominent scientist who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The couple is welcomed by the maid Fosca, and Andrew becomes fascinated with the house. Sandra has issues with her stepfather and her insane mother and misses her brother Gianni Wald-Luzzati, who is an aspiring writer. When Gianni appears in the house out of the blue, Andrew unravels a shadowy secret from the siblings' past.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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