Both Luchino Visconti and Antonioni chose the genre of film noir for their first feature film, and both picked actor Massimo Girotti to star, but that is where the similarities end. Where Visconti's Ossessione was a film noir/Neo-Realist fusion, Antonioni created a sleek, sexy work about a businessman who hires a detective to investigate his wife and her ex-boyfriend, who soon begin conspiring against him. This print has been restored by Azzociazione Philip Morris-Progetto Cinema.