The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the priest ,drags him into a daring and hallucinated series of ups and downs to the brink of insanity and jail.

Roldano Lupi
Baron Carlo di Santafusca

Lída Baarová
Marinella

Luigi Almirante
Don Cirillo
Carlo Lombardi
Count Vico di Spiano

Loris Gizzi
Marquis Usilli

Luigi Pavese
Judge Pavese
Gionvanni Grasso
Francesco Scuoto, the Lawyer

Checco Rissone
Filippino

Mario Colli
Count Ignazio
Elio Marcuzzo
Girogio Di Sauro
Anna Capodaglio
Maddalena
Diana Mercanti
Lellina, the Ballerina

Riccardo Billi
The Barber
Oreste Fares
Don Antonio

Giuseppe Pierozzi
Administrator of the Sacro Monte