Rina Franchetti

A prospector and his drunkard brother must fight against the insane and sadistic son of a wealthy rancher, who has dispossessed them of their family farm.

Ponziani Armando, the owner of a thriving chemical industry, lives in a beautiful villa on Lake Como with his wife and his son Franco Ersilia.

Emilia, product of a cloistered education and an aristocratic lineage is thrown into the arms of a brash parvenu, who she marries but refuses to consummate her marriage.