The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the priest ,drags him into a daring and hallucinated series of ups and downs to the brink of insanity and jail.
as Baron Carlo di Santafusca
as Marinella
as Don Cirillo
as Count Vico di Spiano
as Marquis Usilli
as Judge Pavese
as Francesco Scuoto, the Lawyer
as Filippino
as Count Ignazio
as Girogio Di Sauro
as Maddalena
as Lellina, the Ballerina
as The Barber
as Don Antonio
as Administrator of the Sacro Monte
as Priest appointed by the Vicar
as Chiarina
as Filippino's Friend
as Priest
as Francesco Scuoto (voice)
as Don Antonio (voice)
as Giorgio Di Sauro (voice)
as Marinella (voice)
