After having robbed a bank, 3 crooks - intellectual Aldo (Ray
Lovelock), rapist Nino (Stefano Cedrati) and I-don't-know Walter (Flavio
Andreini) - take refuge in a remote house on the seaside, where nun
Christina (Florinda Bolkan) and her five theatre students (Sherry
Buchanan, Laura Tanziani, Annaluisa Pesce, Laura Trotter, Karina Verlier)
have taken up residence. Immediately, our crooks kill the girls' maid
(Isabel Pisano) to get some respect, then Nino tries to rape Elisa (Sherry
Buchanan), but she stabs him into the leg and almost castrates him. Not a
good start for their co-habitation, but soon enough, Sister Christina and
the crooks come to an understanding: the girls will all stay alive as long
as the Sister treats Nino's wound.
This kind of arrangement goes reasonable well, even if our gang of
crooks have to kill the postman after Sister Christina tried to slip him
an SOS-note ... and occasionally too, one of the girls is raped.
Eventually, Elisa decides to try and make a swim to safety and to get
help ... but she is stopped at the last minute by Aldo, who then leaves
her to Nino and Walter ... who rape her with a sharp stick, which
ultimately kills her. Now our nun forgets all her turn-the-other-cheek
and Samaritan rules of conduct and she poisons Nino while claiming to
treat him. Then she shoots Walter with Nino's gun.
Aldo now finds himself outnumbered, but he still tries to persuade the
girls into letting him leave with the money, since killing was actually
never his thing. But of all the girls, it is actually Matilde (Annaluisa
Pesce) with whom he had a tender romance going, who shoots him in the
stomach, then the other girls gang up on him and club him to death.
This film might sound more interesting than it is ... somehow it tries
to be exploitative to the hilt and restrained at the same time - and you
don't need to be a genius to figure out that that can't work. So on one
hand the plot of the film is focussed on sleaze as such, but on the other
hand, there is never any real pay-off, thus the film falls short of
audience expectations and remains incredibly dull.
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