Snaporaz, an Italian train passenger, encounters a beautiful woman and pursues the lady through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference. He soon realizes that he is an unwelcome presence and must leave.

The one and the only Marcello Mastroianni reunited with the irrepressible master of Italian cinema Federico Fellini seventeen years after 8 1/2 for a story about—what else?—the arthouse dreamboat being beset by woman of all kinds, as an aging playboy soul-searches in a newly feminist Italy.