Isa Miranda plays a headstrong but unstable young noblewoman, confined by her uncle to a gloomy villa on the shores of Lake Como. A yellowed and crumbling letter, found in an old spinet, convinces her that she is the reincarnation of her uncle’s first wife. When a handsome young writer comes to stay, Miranda decides that HE is the reincarnation of the dead woman’s lover. Gradually, she lures him into her web of sex and revenge…