Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society
A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change
After his quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason returns to Greece with powerful sorceress Medea However, when the king banishes her, its only human that Medea plots her furious revenge Can they escape h
An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian Austrian war of unification However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful, he becomes enamored of her again
The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love
A young novice is about to take her vows upon entering a convent when her recent past comes back to haunt her
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for the Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her
A slave architect in Gaul is ordered by a Roman governor to lead an expedition, constantly under danger of attack by Celtic warriors, to the Valley of the Sil to find much needed gold for Rome
Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband
A young man, visiting the castle of a murderous ancestor in Austria, accidentally brings his dead relative back to life searching for new victims