获奖：2005年意大利电影新闻记者协会银丝带奖提名最佳摄影
2004年戛纳电影节导演双周单元
介绍：卡罗和希尔维娅结婚20年了。卡罗有个年轻的情妇，跟她在同居；而妻子希尔维娅则住在罗马的家中，卡罗只是偶尔经过。夫妻两人间有种强烈的爱怜和深刻的理解，但当希尔维娅也给自己找来个年轻暴力的小情人时，两夫妻的关系到了最紧急的关头。这意味着一场情欲角力赛即将展开。影片片名来自作家offredo Parise的同名小说。

Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman, travels from her home in Hamburg, Germany to Rome, Italy where she embarks on a fatal destiny that she had helped to arrange for herself – a premeditated search for someone, anyone, with whom she could form a dangerous liaison. Lise meets a variety of people during her journey and stay in Rome who include Bill, a lecherous British businessman that she meets on the plane to Rome who tries to seduce her; Carlo, a young man whom Lise tries to know more about; an elderly Englishwoman named Mrs. Fiedke whom Lise bonds with to go shopping; and Pierre, a Frenchman who picks up Lise hoping to seduce her as well.
The film is told in a non-linear narrative as throughout the film are scenes of the local Rome police interviewing all the people that Lise interacted with as well as investigating the reasons for her strange behavior that led up to her own murder.