Alan Webb

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories, the second film in Pasolini's Trilogy of Life.

Sloane, a handsome, sexy, and completely amoral young man, joins Kath's household as a lodger and proceeds to manipulate her and her brother, Ed. He is recognised by Kemp as the murderer of Kemp's former employer, whereupon Sloane murders Kemp. Sloane's "just desserts" are not what one would expect.

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.