Fate has thrown the rich, wayward beauty Rafaela and the poor communist Gennarino onto a deserted island. There's not a soul around for miles. Somewhere far away there was a luxurious yacht, on which Rafaela and her friends and husband rested, and the sailor worked in the sweat of his brow, silently enduring the whims of the exploiters. Now he had the perfect opportunity to get even for all the humiliation. But from class hatred to passionate love, as we know, is not very far.

The action takes place in Paris in the late sixties. A forty-five-year-old American man is shocked by the recent death of his wife, he considers himself guilty and is in a state of deep depression. Desperately clinging to life, he meets a young Parisian woman, a strange and eccentric girl much younger than him. Their connection turns into a passion that reaches almost to the point of madness, a passion whose limits are hard to imagine....

Northern California. Summer 1850. The boss of a gold mining company suggests that the independent prospectors leave voluntarily or they will be thrown out by force. The intimidated men have no choice. But one day a stranger arrives at their camp, the prospectors call him "The Preacher." He becomes the boss's rider of vengeance, and hell follows him.

Gloria Mundy's unremarkable life is suddenly filled with intrigue and mysterious events after her recent acquaintance is murdered on their first date.