一名前外交官从国外回到西西里岛，向警方报告了他刚刚发现的一个奇怪的事情。第二天，警察督察Lepri来到该男子的住处，发现他已经死亡。他自杀了吗？在进行调查时，Lepri碰巧怀疑自己的专员——与此同时，一列火车因信号失灵而停在农村的某个地方。一名司机决定通知站长，但他和另一名铁路特工也被发现死亡。对于警方来说，司机必然与这些神秘的死亡事件有关。

1986 film by Emidio Greco

a surreal masterpiece!
Very few movies are as good as the book that inspired them. This one might be somewhat different from the idea I had from the book -the color whiter, the image flatter, but it remains a sort of cinematographic UFO which leaves a long lasting imprint of the memory -after all, this long-lasting imprint is what the film is all about. It looks like a low budget science fiction movie, while its the ultimate movie about love (like the book was the ultimate book about love). Haunting. A plus of the film is fascinating discourse of Morel, in surgical, clipped Italian sentences which make you rush to learn Italian. A unique film.