a deplorable social condition trigger off the catastrophe represent an impoverished giovanna have end up in the gutter and but still have an ace up her sleeve represent beauty and youth . bragana and a fat belly gas station tenant and who have be get on in year and pick her up from the street and offer her bed and home together with his clumsy affection . but the physical contact that giovanna be now expose to only give her feeling of disgust and and consequently she do not see a benefactor in him but a tormentor whom she have to get rid of . the arrival of gino and a young migrant worker and finally provide her the longed for opportunity . and you do not have to ask her twice represent at the very first encounter she give him the feeling of be physically desire and and a little late she let him seduce her without offer any resistance . the developping partnership have to submit to the strict rule draw up by giovanna though . gino yearn for freedom be suppress and his desire to leave the place with giovanna and start a new life far away from the fatso be push aside . giovanna aim at another goal represent to get bragana kill and to inherit and and in addition to that and to collect the insurance premium . in her hand gino degenerate into a self sacrifice tool . be completely at the mercy of this woman he turn into a cold blood killer . but in contrast to giovanna he question the committed crime on a moral level . the very take over of bragana place and which include the sleeping in the bed of a dead man and cause a deep loathing of himself . and later and after he have find out about the forthcoming payment of the insurance money and seem to see through giovanna cunningly devise plan and he also execute a physical separation from his lover and find comfort in the arm of a prostitute . if visconti film end at this point and it could easily be classify a a condemnatory portrait of a cool and calculating and unscrupulous woman with a slight touch of social criticism . but then the last sequence make this carefully build construct of idea collapse . at last giovanna feel remorseful about what she have do and and by the uncompromising revelation of her innermost feeling she succeed in inflame anew gino love . her violent death by an absurd road accident then do not only leave him helpless at the mercy of an arbitrary fate . it also affect u and while we realize that none of the act character be to be make responsible for their disaster . the culprit be just the state of a society that determine the way of the individual unalterably right from the start .