A newly wedded and extremely handsome young bourgeois Antonio faces a scandal in a city of Sicily in 1950's when the public and her family hears that his beautiful wife is still "untouched" after their 12-month long marriage.

Women love handsome Antonio because they think of him as the perfect lover. But he actually has trouble fulfilling this ideal, and Barbara only notices his failures after they are married. When the townfolk learn about his trouble they start laughing at him.—Volker Boehm