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One day, Giorgia (Andrea Baraldi), a depressed private eye, receives a
pack of videotapes about her sister Ada (Claudia Zanella), who took her
own life 16 years ago.
But what was the reason for her desperate action, and was it really
suicide ?
Giorgia is determined to find out, and starts watching the tapes, which
show her sister in a different light: She is no longer just the young
hopeful aspiring actress but a cocaine snorting bitch who cheats on her
husband (Rino Diana) with a mysterious stranger she only refers to as A,
and the two seem to have an affair inspired by the film Last Tango in
Paris (Quo Vadis, Baby is actually a quote from that film).
Hours of videotapes don't seem to bring Giorgia any closer to an
answer, and when she asks her father, the Capitano (Luigi Maria Burruano),
he rudely evades her questions. Only from a colleague (Elio Germano) does
Giorgia later learn that her father hasn't been the same and started
drinking after her sister's death.
Eventually, Giorgia meets a man who wants her, Andrea Berti (Gigio
Alberti), and whom even she can love back, and before long they start a
steamy affair ... until Giorgia learns that Andrea is exactly the A
her sister was talking about. Andrea admits that he is A, but denies
having had anything to do with Ada's death. In fact, he claims, her father
was the last man who saw Ada alive.
When confronted by Giorgia, the Capitano finally shows his vulnerable,
his broken self, and talks about how he wanted to get Ada home, away from
the chaos that her life has become, away from her lover and the drugs and
everything. But all she did was despise him ...
Somehow, Giorgia receives one more video of her sister, but it mainly
contains Fritz Lang's film M - and
since she doesn't like films at all, she doesn't watch it to the end,
instead goes on a date with commissario Bruni (Andrea Renzi), who has
recently become quite attached to her and who might become her boyfriend
...
Thing is, on the tape, after the film, there are the last recordings
ever of her sister, when she fights with her dad - and tells him she has
seen him kill her mum ...
Even if this film can't quite decide if it's a thriller, a murder
mystery or a melodrama, the outcome is surprisingly homogenous, and even
suspenseful despite the lack of any real action or present danger. Now the
film might not be the greatest movie ever, but director Gabriele
Salvatores understands to turn a woman's quest for the truth, and on a
broader scope for her own identity, into an entertaining piece of cinema.
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