Laura Betti

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.

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.