Synopsis:

The end of the 1930s. In a Rome controlled by the fascists, the sensual
and militant Carmen Tabacchi meets Nito Valdi, a diabolic and criminal
man, who falls madly in love with her. It is not reciprocated, due to his
violent and evil nature. Nito starts stalking her, obsessed by an
unquenchable passion. In the meantime, Carmen’s destiny is intertwined
with the Fontamaras’, a rich family who are found out to be Jewish and
see just how cruel the racial laws can be. Carmen lives though the
difficult war years, the German occupation, the resistance, the liberation,
and comes, finally, to the day of reckoning with the stalker who has never
stopped desiring her.