Anouk Eme swims naked(0:16)

Post-war Italy. A film based on William Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" with the working title "The Lovers of Verona" is being shot in Verona and Venice. During filming, the actors needed doubles. The actor playing Romeo suffers from vertigo and is unable to climb a rope ladder. The actress playing Juliet invited an extra for scenes that were filmed under bright lighting. This is how the young glassblower Angelo and the young Giorgia Maglia, the daughter of a disgraced prosecutor from the time of Mussolini, got to film the film. Suddenly, the events behind the scenes begin to resemble the events that took place in Shakespeare's famous drama...