A night watchman flees a morgue in the middle of the night and is hit by a car. When Inspector Corrado Cosser arrives to investigate, he finds that the body of a recently deceased wealthy businesswoman has disappeared from the same morgue. Her younger husband becomes the prime suspect. But as more secrets surface, even he begins to wonder whether his wife is truly dead, or whether she is playing one final, cruel game. An Italian erotic psychological thriller about deception, power, and who really controls a marriage.