A Private Venus

In the bleak Milan suburb of Metanopoli, in the late 1960s, a dead woman is found along the side of the road. Duca Lamberti is a medical doctor who has just been released from prison, where he has spent three years for having practised euthanasia. He is approached by the rich industrialist Auseri who asks Duca to cure his son Davide of his drinking habit. After an attempted suicide, Davide explains to Duca how he had met Alberta, the young girl who was found dead a few days earlier, death for which he feels responsible. Duca is compelled to find out the truth, and with the help of Alberta s friend Livia Ussaro, he and Davide support the police in uncovering a complex circle of crime, where Duca will have to find his own justice.