Laura Rizzoli

Catherine is a wealthy young woman lacking in notable qualities; when a young man begins to court her, her father, Dr. Sloper, attempts to thwart the relationship, sensing the suitor's opportunism. Catherine defies her father's judgment, which ultimately proves to be correct.

Set between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Zeno Cosini, a wealthy Trieste merchant, neurotic and smoker, is marked by a conflictual relationship with his father and a chronic sense of inadequacy that drives him to seek help from psychoanalyst Dr. S.