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A wealthy shipbuilding family falls apart in the wake of labor unrest and economic crisis. Lorenzo (Mathieu Carriere) is the son who returns home from college and falls in love with his mother, hates his father even more, and makes love to an older family friend Roberta (Joan Collins). After being rejected when he tries to join the student protest movement, he is seduced by the homosexual Crusich (Massimo Serato). As the dockworkers picket, one man (Frank Wolff) commits suicide by diving into an empty holding tank. The family sinks into further disarray as the labor strike continues and the family fortune is depleted.