It stars actors Gabriele Ferzetti[1] and Gina Lollobrigida.

The younger generation has long recognized that there is a lot of hypocrisy hidden behind the elegant setting and the strict morals.

That is why the seventeen-year-old Nino feels particularly drawn to his beautiful aunt Cettina, who is considered the black sheep of the family because she ran off into a marriage that was not entirely approved.

The experienced woman, however, smugly kindles the fire of a glowing passion in the awakened young man, seduces him according to all the rules of the art - and then appears very astonished when Nino, full of mad jealousy, does not want to share his place with older lover Sasà.

Nino, resigned, throws himself into a marriage with a young cousin - and will play the usual game without open rebellion.