

Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with her before they are committed to insane asylums. A special connection, between a mother and her daughter, full of sensuality and complicity, has allowed to portray a family full of fears, rather unbalanced, but nevertheless searching infinite love.

Isabelle Huppert
Piera

Hanna Schygulla
Eugenia

Marcello Mastroianni
Lorenzo

Angelo Infanti
Tito / Giasone

Aiche Nana
midwife

Tanya Lopert
Elide
Bettina Grühn
Piera as a Child

Renato Cecchetto
psychiatric hospital attendant

Maurizio Donadoni
Massimo

Girolamo Marzano
doctor Filippi
Lidia Montanari
"One hundred thousand lires"

Laura Trotter
Luciana

Marina Zanchi
Arianna

Lina Bernardi
Miriam Gautieri
Elisabetta Ambrosini

Fiammetta Baralla
hospital nurse

Serena Bennato
Marisa

Rita Caldana
Cristina Forti
Daniela Nicosia
Marco Ferreri
Dacia Maraini, Piera Degli Esposti, Marco Ferreri
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