This passionate romance from Italian director Giuseppe Piccioni concerns Guido Montani (Valerio Mastandrea) , a top-tiered writer and the recipient of an elitist literary award. Motivated by his towering success, Guido taps into a lifelong aspiration to learn to swim, and enrolls in swimming lessons at a local pool. In so doing, his path criss-crosses with that of Giulia (international star Valeria Golino) a beautiful woman who projects the utmost grace and finesse in the water. A relationship gestates between the two, but Guido senses that Giulia is concealing unusual and dark secrets about her past - beginning with the fact that she is an ex-convict.