Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with her before they are committed to insane asylums. A special connection, between a mother and her daughter, full of sensuality and complicity, has allowed to portray a family full of fears, rather unbalanced, but nevertheless searching infinite love.
Isabelle Huppert
Piera
Hanna Schygulla
Eugenia
Marcello Mastroianni
Lorenzo
Angelo Infanti
Tito / Giasone
Aiche Nana
midwife
Tanya Lopert
Elide
Bettina Grühn
Piera as a Child
Renato Cecchetto
psychiatric hospital attendant
Maurizio Donadoni
Massimo
Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with her before they are committed to insane asylums. A special connection, between a mother and her daughter, full of sensuality and complicity, has allowed to portray a family full of fears, rather unbalanced, but nevertheless searching infinite love.
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