Prior to any development on the film, Alberto Abruzzese taught at the University of Naples and published several books since 1972 was referred to by historian and critic Roberto Curti as one of Italy's "most highly reputed sociologists and semiologists".
[2] Abruzzese considered the film a "hypersensible journey among the literary and cinematic genres a game of displacements".
[1][4] Curti stated the film received "generally perplexed, if not downright bad reviews".
[4] Piero Zanotto of La Stampa stated that the film's narrative was a series of "linear encounters with oneirism, eroticism, horror, sentimentalism, period-evoking flash backs all tied together by an extremely thin but logical thread of the events lived by the protagonists" and concluded that: "As for the pleasantness of the result for the viewers... we have strong doubts".
[5][4] The film has not received theatrical distribution and was first shown on Rai Tre television in Italy on October 27, 1990.