A husband obsessed with his wife's psychological unfaithfulness craves honesty and disclosure. Their confrontations broil as external events intervene to worsen their long-lasting, irrepressible wrangles. Conspiracy, crime, and corruption that penetrate the highest levels of the Mafia, the military police, Roman Catholicism and Stregheria, a secret society, intrude to thrust the couple's previous mundane life into a vortex of murderous, self-interested forces seeking control of the Papacy and the Vatican bank. This is a mercurial marriage lathered with suspicion, disloyalty, and infidelity. It is a love story of a man and woman as if hurled from the Garden of Eden.