[1][2] Vitório Palestrina is a playboy millionaire who passes his days sleeping with, abusing, and discarding women in a small village.

After seducing a young woman named Silvia, he brutally rapes her, biting off one of her nipples in the process.

Palestrina is acquitted of rape on the grounds of insufficient evidence and laughs at the victim when the judge gives the verdict.

When he finally does, Veronica allows Palestrina to consummate their affair with a long, passionate episode of lovemaking.

As he settles into a peaceful post coital state, Veronica calmly reaches into her purse and removes a surgical knife with which she castrates him.