1940 France just before the great invasion. Eliane (Lisa Gastoni) is a pharmacist who is married to her dull husband (Raymond Pellegrin) and has a teenage daughter (Claudia Marsani). Eliane is an attractive woman who has let her passion fall dormant. One evening, the pharmacy clerk Armand (Franco Nero) makes a pass at her when he thinks she is another girl. Soon she lets the passion overtake her and she soon becomes his love slave.
Riziero "Riz" Ortolani (born September 4, 1931 in Pesaro, Italy) is an Italian film composer. In the early 1950s Ortolani was founder and member of a jazz band of national Italian renown. His first score he wrote for the 1962 Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti pseudo-documentary Mondo Cane, whose main title-song More earned him a Grammy and also was nominated for an Oscar as Best Song. The success of the soundtrack of Mondo Cane led Ortolani to score films in England and the United States. "Scandalo" (Scandal) is one of the most powerful and yet least known soundtracks of this great Italian composer.
