Appassionate

Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples Pina has two daughters Rosa who has been wearing a wedding dress since she was left stranded at the altar several years ago and Caterina who murdered a man who wronged her as he left the church following his wedding Caterina winds up in prison alongside Maddalena a prostitute who witnessed the murder and was inspired to kill a man in her own life who had hurt her The incidents from these womens lives are interspersed with another story set in 1929 and filmed in blackandwhite about a man who shoots his wife in a movie theater and must run to avoid the police