Playing cynicism kills Forty-year-old Marco meets newly graduated Anna (Eleanor Georgie). Charismatic and carrying some kind of mystery, Marco easily conquers an inexperienced and naive creature who falls in love so much that he is ready to do whatever his beloved wants. Marco's behavior is explained by deep inner drama, lack of love in his life, since his wife is a rabid feminist and even speaks at some feminist meetings. Marco is a man with a delicate and vulnerable soul, and it seems to him that a woman really loves him only if she is ready for all kinds of masochistic exploits for the sake of love. Therefore, he subjects the beloved to constant checks - then forces her to make love with another, and he peeks through a hole in the wall, then asks the girl for the sake of the experiment to once be a street prostitute, then offers her to plunge a knife into herself.
At the same time, Marco deliberately infects the girl with the “philosophy of life”, in which no one loves anyone, there are no real feelings, and it is better for children not to be born into this world at all. He deliberately inspires her with such thoughts, causing her to want to argue and fiercely prove the opposite. Probably, after such disputes, Marco revives his interest in life and begins to see in it the good sides.
However, the constant play of cynicism tires Anna, and one day she will do what, in her opinion, Marco wanted her to do, in reality, not wanting it. And after this act, a return to the previous game of cynicism is impossible, and Marco will lose Anna forever.
Smart psychological film Giorgio Stegani, although it does not belong to the masterpieces of Italian cinema of that time, but if it was shot in our time of dubious and boring pretentious art house, surely would receive many prizes at various film festivals.
7 out of 10