A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.

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。

The international premiere of Le Streghe, femmes entre elles (France/Italy), like last year’s heart-rending Le Genou d’Artemide, is based on Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò. Nature’s splendour, as Straub has always filmed it, pulses with everlasting energy throughout this delicately profound chimerical intersection of im/mortality.