Artificial Eye

The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

A film crew is shooting the remake of an old science fiction movie about a nuclear holocaust in Portugal. Problems soon begin to arise. The desperate director starts to fear he won't be able to finish his film.

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese's "Dialoghi con Leucò", taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese's novel "La luna e i falò": after WWII the emigrant 'The Bastard' ...

The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his alienation from Judaism and from the social relations around him, the rise of Fascism ...