In
Rome, Dodo is a
university lecturer taking a class in
French literature. Also in the apartment is his bedridden father Alberto, whose nurse Fausta looks after his medical and sexual needs. The
withdrawn Dodo does not respond to her provocative behaviour and is repelled by the
rampant sexuality of his father. Part of his trouble is that he was too close to his now dead mother, who not only had to meet her husband's needs but also had to
share him with countless other women. But his main problem is that his beautiful and sexy wife Silvia, who breezed into his quiet studious life, has vanished with another man. After a class, an
African girl called Pascasie asks him back to her flat and strips off, inviting him to
photograph her. When her flatmate comes home, after an initial spat over the presence of a strange man, the
two girls start making love. Dodo, always the observer and not the participant, leaves them to it. Increasingly, he fantasises about the absent Silvia and about the sex lives of his parents. One night there is a mystery woman in his father's bedroom and in the morning Fausta says it must have been Silvia, because she still has a door key. Then, all of a sudden, Silvia says she wants to come back to the apartment. == Cast ==