Mara (Vanessa Gravina) had a memorable childhood vacation in Cortina, but the bad part is that when they returned home, her parents died in a car accident. Now, she’s married to a painter named Carlo (Stefano Abbati) who controls her life and when she refuses to make love to him, he drugs her and does it regardless. She fakes her death and moves into that vacation home from the past, meeting a couple named Sergio (Paolo Calissano) and Lluba (Isabel Russinova) who want her to live with them, as well as protect her when Carlo comes looking for her. Or perhaps not.

The Maurizio Vanni who directed this — thanks, Italo Cinema — is cinematographer Giancarlo Ferrando. He made this movie with Luciano and Sergio Martino assisting with the story, which was turned into a screenplay by Maurizio Rasio (who wrote Craving Desire for Sergio) and Piero Regnoli (who also scripted a Sergio Martino film, Foxy Lady). I would assume they watched Sleeping with the Enemy and then made this.

Seeing as how Giancarlo Ferrando also shot Monster Shark, Troll 2 and Detective School Dropouts, this may not be his worst — or most interesting, because I still love those films — movie. And because he also shot All the Colors of the Dark, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key and Torso, it’s definitely not his best.