
Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees.
Ernesto

The man

Ernesto's Mother

Carlo Wilder

Ilio / Rachele

Signora Luzzato, Mother of Ilio and Rachele

Ernesto's friend Andrea

Uncle Giovanni

Prostitute Sandra
Aunt Regina

Cesco

Ilio (voice) (uncredited)

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