Aurora Rumelin is happy because the noble writer Leopold Sacher-Masoch has asked for her hand. Little by little the marriage goes into crisis mainly because Leopold asks his wife to beat him before sexual relations and to treat him like a slave. Both spouses have lovers and, in the end, the marriage ends in divorce.

• Difilm
• Tierre S.A.S.
• Paolo Malco
• Francesca De Sapio
• Fabrizio Bentivoglio
• Inga Alexandrova
• Remo Remotti
• Valeria D'Obici
• Claudio Sorrentino
• Dario Mazzoli