After only six months of marriage, disenchanted homemaker Marta feels her passion for Dario, her boring literary editor husband, wane. As a result, free-spirited Marta takes matters into her own hands and lets herself get carried away by handsome Frenchman Leon while admiring the vivid murals of Palazzo del Te in Mantua, Italy. Of course, always-suspicious Dario has already noticed changes in beautiful Marta's behaviour--her scandalous affair behind his back came as no surprise to him. After all, Dario had it coming. And observing neglected Marta embrace her passionate transformation, Dario realises a dash of infidelity might be all it takes to stir his dormant enthusiasm for her. However, is Dario's newfound interest in Marta a case of too little, too late?