Publisher's Synopsis
Tragic romance based on the turn-of-the-century literary classic 'Dzieje Grzechu' by acclaimed Polish writer Stefan Zeromski. Eva (Grazyna Dlugolecka) is a beautiful young Polish girl whose passionate affair with a married man leads to betrayal, infanticide and prostitution. Following her lover across Europe to Rome, where he has gone with the stated intention of divorcing his wife, Eva falls prey to the schemes and traps of various wicked and abusive men she encounters along the way, with ultimately tragic consequences.