After losing his first wife and the love of his life, wheelchair-bound music composer Frederico Brandi remarries and becomes increasingly more miserable, suspecting his new wife, Marta, of only staying with him out of pity. As he constantly disrespects Marta and scorns her young son for being a dreamer who wants only to race horses, his live-in secretary, Giorgia, forges a sexual bond with Marta.
