Goldsmith Vittorio is looking for the ideal woman. Then he meets Sonia. He becomes obsessed with shaping Sonia’s body and mind as he does gold with fire. When the two lovers isolate themselves in a house in the Italian countryside, they dangerously lose touch with reality and the rest of the world.

Set to an award-winning score, Matteo Garrone’s fifth work of fiction descends fearlessly into a dark romance between a fanatical goldsmith and his malleable muse. Exposing the macabre extremes some risk in a bid for aesthetic perfection, this shadowy film aches with ill-fated obsession and love.