The Possessed

A young writer, Bernard (Peter Baldwin), returns to the small town where he had vacationed previously, He goes to visit Tilde (Virna Lisi), a young woman with whom he had a brief sexual relationship; however, she isn’t there and the locals are not keen on talking about why. Bernard learns that she has been killed and her body was thrown into the lake. The writer presses on in his investigations and as he goes through the town, casual encounters build up an atmosphere of menace… –filmaffinity.com