Asolo, Italy, March 1945. Her husband's informant and an admirer, lawyer Ugo Oggiano picks up Livia Mazzion in his automobile. Livia is a ravishing ministry official's wife. Livia must get to Venice to see her boyfriend Helmut Schultz, a Wermacht lieutenant who is as beautiful and accursed as a pagan god. During the journey, she relives the high points of her terrible sexual abandonment gone adrift, one that has ruined her life and destiny, sucking her up in the disastrous vortex of a sybaritic and bituminous Venice. Trade, politics, and adventurers of all kinds are a common sight in the last months of the battle in the city. The heroes' personal defeats intertwine with the public's as historical and political events now strive to settle accounts, and a surprise greets Livia upon her arrival in Venice.
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Asolo, Italy, March 1945. Her husband's informant and an admirer, lawyer Ugo Oggiano picks up Livia Mazzion in his automobile. Livia is a ravishing ministry official's wife. Livia must get to Venice to see her boyfriend Helmut Schultz, a Wermacht lieutenant who is as beautiful and accursed as a pagan god. During the journey, she relives the high points of her terrible sexual abandonment gone adrift, one that has ruined her life and destiny, sucking her up in the disastrous vortex of a sybaritic and bituminous Venice. Trade, politics, and adventurers of all kinds are a common sight in the last months of the battle in the city. The heroes' personal defeats intertwine with the public's as historical and political events now strive to settle accounts, and a surprise greets Livia upon her arrival in Venice.
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