Pina Acciai, a fortune teller dedicated to usury, is found dead in her apartment with her skull smashed in. The police try to shed light on the matter and discover that all the tenants of the building could have a motive.

Based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils.

In a small italian town everyone's waiting for the event of the year: the living chess game with a near town.