Michael Curran continues his obsession with Sacher-Masoch, and in this film revisits Rubens' eponymous masterpiece. The grainy, tinted images have a beauty which belies the sinister nuances of the voice-over.
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter.
Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel.