来自乡村的绰号“意大利人”的女学生（Iwona Petry 饰）热情、奔放，她希望在华沙找到一间公寓。籍此机缘，她和人类学教授米切尔（Boguslaw Linda 饰），后者向女学生提供了他弟弟的房子。两人相约来到公寓，却很快也变成一场狂野的性爱。 　　不久，米切尔和学生在市郊发现了一具拥有两千多年历史且保存完好的黄教僧干尸。这具干尸似乎拥有某种魔力，米切尔愈加沉迷其中。他与未婚妻和朋友相继决裂，高涨的欲望让他一心耽恋和“意大利人”的肉欲之中。随着时间推移，他甚至发现，自己竟可以和黄教僧进行精神层面的交流……Classmates called her "Italian" ... She is extremely beautiful and radiates a certain primitive, dangerous sexuality ... which is run by wild animal instincts: the girl is unpredictable, swift and mad. "The Italian" may violently, just like Szamanka, make love with a stranger and quietly steal whatever she liked. She exudes a powerful passion, a passion that knows no barriers, but passion fatal ... Once "The Italian" will meet a man who will give all her unbridled love ... and death together with it ...