This film lacks more things, like a more inspired final and more consistent content. Many scenes do nothing than to be a tour guide, showing us Palermo (which is not bad for those without opportunities to travel...). But even as it is, it's not a bad film, is very realistic, with problems extracted from real life. True love, sexual desire, betrayal, the desire to adopt a child. Some commentators have written it is porn or Erotica. Definitely, it is not porn. And Erotica is what Joe D'Amato and Tinto Brass have done. It's better to abstain to write when you don't know what to say, what's the truth. The film has gorgeous music (you can hear some nice songs by Nino D'Angelo in the soundtrack), it's carefully filmed and edited. The most successful moment are those alternating scenes of love, culminating with the orgasm of Alina, on the "Hallelujah" from Messiah oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel.
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