Annabelle enters into a secret and incestuous love affair with her brother, Giovanni. She becomes pregnant. Hiding her shameful passion from the world, the beautiful woman must spurn a throng of eligible bachelors. Finally forced by the church to wed the unrelenting Soranzo, Annabelle succumbs to the marriage bed in a searing scene of sensual splendor. Her unholy secret is discovered... and the erotic tensions build to a terrifying banquet of death. John Ford's play, first performed in the 1630's, is as shocking and absorbing today as it was then.