It’s about an English couple coming to Napoli because an uncle left them a property there and they wish to view the place and sell it quickly. From the start it’s clear that the atmosphere between them is rather cold, they don’t have anything to say to each other and don’t seem to have any interest in common. He’s arrogant and sarcastic, and immediately starts complaining about how people drive and how noisy they are and how bored he is. It’s their first time alone since they married, and things don’t seem to go well. She says that he doesn’t like to be in her company because he always says how bored he is. He says that if they are distant it’s all her fault; she says he was always criticizing her until he crushed her; he says she lacks sense of humour and is full of silly romanticism.. until he says: I don’t want to talk about it and they stop talking completely, and things never get better when people don’t talk.
She spends her days visiting Pompei, the National Archeological Museum of Napoli, the Fontanelle cemetery, the solfatara, while he spends his days in Capri with a lady friend, until she makes peace with her husband.
When they get together again they have another fight - because she took the car quite early without waking him up to ask him if he wanted to use it himself since he had told her that was tired and wanted to sleep all morning - and he tells her how senseless and intolerable she is lately and decide to get a divorce. The caretaker of their property comes to tell them that they must witness sumething very peculiar, and they go: they’re making a mould of two people that were killed in Pompei, a man and a woman, maybe husband and wife, and she bursts into crying and they leave. They can’t go on though because the streets are full of people and no matter how much he uses the car horn they can’t get past: there’s the religious procession of S.Gennaro and they have no other choice but stop the car. They get out to look around, and she’s caught up and moved forward by the crowd and starts shouting to him as if they were capturing her ( but on the other hand, she had trouble dealing with spaghetti, a big crowd must be really too much to handle for her). He moves towards her and of course reaches her, and she throws herself into his arms as if she had gone through some terrible experience and says “oh I don’t want to lose you” and he says “what’s wrong with us, why do we torture one another?” - “when you say things that hurt me I try to hurt you back don’t you see, but I can’t I can’t any longer because I love you” - “perhaps we get hurt too easily”... she asks him to tell her that he loves her and he does.
What happened all of a sudden? What’s changed? They were shouting in each other’s face a few minutes ago and now they’re hugging and confessing they love each other... it doesn’t make much sense. It must be S. Gennaro, he’s done another miracle...
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