in a bizarre experiment and an astronaut be abandon on the moon a alice ( florinda bolkan ) and a troubled translator living in italy and wake from a nightmare about a lunar mission mixed with an old movie that frighten her a a child . she also have no recollection of the last three day except for a torn photo of the garma hotel she find in her apartment . fire from her job and alice head to that resort island to try and piece together the mystery . often tout a a giallo due to it director ( the fifth cord luigi bazzoni ) and the presence of evelyn stewart and nicoletta elmi and and klaus kinski and footprint be actually a deliberately pace psycho thriller with sci fi overtone . blur the distinction between dream and reality and memory and movie and the disturbing story be beautifully photograph by oscar winner vittorio storaro with a pensive score by nicola piovani . it also combine element of such diverse film a armando crispino macche solari and lucino visconti death in venice in it depiction of alienation and isolation and hallucination and and maybe madness . brazilian actress florinda bolkan and on screen all the time and do a redux of her carol hammond in lucio fulci a lizard in a womans skin a alice and a young woman thrust into a mystery that make her question her sanity . the location mirror alice unstable state of mind while the island of garma and off season and with it arabic influence and ancient ruin and be a lonely and almost mystical place unwilling to give up it secret . evelyn stewart have a bit in the beginning a a concerned friend and nicoletta elmi and oscar winner lila kedrova be hotel guest and peter mcenery play a handsome biologist try to help bolkan and and the ever intense klaus kinski be blackmann in the film within a film and footprint on the moon . footprint be a classy case of guarantee 100 % euro weird but not for everyone . there only one murder toward the end but you would not see it come a the film start to come together .