[2] In 1953, Joe Morelli is traveling rural Sicily, offering to take screen tests of wannabe actors for a fee.

He claims to work for big Roman film studios, but in reality he is a fraud.

Joe and Beata's relationship gradually evolves into a romantic one, when he's exposed as a fraud, beaten, and arrested.

Pretending to be Joe's friend, he conveys to her a message that she was the love of his life, and promises he shall come back with money and take care of her.

When filming began, Tiziana Lodato was still a minor, but she said she was already 18 when she played the explicit sex scene with Sergio Castellitto.