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A theatrical comedy written in 1919. When Fulvia Gelli attempts suicide after a life of excess, her abandoned husband Silvio—now a celebrated surgeon—saves her life. They reunite and she becomes pregnant, but her contempt for him puzzles onlookers at a Tuscan pension. A confrontation with Silvio and her former lover reveals a dark truth about their past that transforms