A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel. The first of a trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski, followed by 'White' and 'Red.'

"Chronicles the life of secret police functionary Marcello Clerici ... who is sent on a mission to assassinate his former teacher, Professor Quadri ... a leftist activist in exile in Paris. Clarici uses his honeymoon with new wife Giulia ... as a cover for the job. But he soon becomes entranced by Quadri's sensuous, haunted wife Anna ... and the fascist tenets he once accepted without question being to waver in his mind."--