March 1945 Asolo, Italy. Livia Mazzion, the wife of a ministry official, slides to the car of lawyer Ugo Oggiano, her husband's informer along with Livia's admirer. Livia must reach Venice along with her fan Helmut Schultz, a Wermacht lieutenant, accursed and as beautiful like being a god, with whom she is having a burning love affair. During the trip she relives the highpoints of her devastating gone adrift, one that has shattered her life along with her destiny, swallowing up her at the ruinous vortex of a bituminous along with sybaritic Venice. The city, at the throes of this final months of this war, is rife with officials traffickers, nabobs, military brass, sharks and adventurers of every type. Yet Livia is awaited by a surprise up on her arrival in Venicea surprise at which the heroes' own personal defeats interweave with those public, as political and ancient events currently want to be in reports.