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Leonora's children Ursula and Edmund inherit her erotic recordings. Ursula uses the recordings to forge a relationship with Gerard, Leonora's late lover. Meanwhile, Gerard's mistress attends to Edmund.

Italy in the early 1930s. To the elderly aristocrat Gerard, all that is left of Leonora, the love of his life, are a number of erotic tape recordings. She led a double life as respectable wife and mother of two, and as a whore at the local brothel. Now, after her death, her children Ursula and Edmund pass under the tutelage of Gerard. Having not seen them for many years, he is utterly bewildered by Ursula's uncanny likeness to her mother. While Gerard's mistress Fiorella takes care of Edmund's sexual needs, Ursula follows the last instructions of her mother. In the process, she uses the legacy of her mother's recordings to get into the mindset of her relationship with Gerard. Is Gerard ready to find his lost love Leonora again...in the likeness of her very daughter?—alphaboy

Following the passing of the elegant but mysterious Leonora, her adult daughter Ursula (Andrea Guzon) and teenage son Edmund (Marco Mattioli) return to their late mother's estate. While sorting through her belongings, they discover a collection of explicit audio recordings and diaries in which Leonora detailed her erotic experiences with a man named Gérard (Gabriele Tinti).

Intrigued and perhaps disturbed, Ursula becomes obsessed with her mother's past. Listening to the recordings in private, she begins to fantasize and emotionally immerse herself in Leonora's sensual world. This fixation leads her to track down Gérard, who is now a melancholic, middle-aged man living in semi-reclusion. Instead of confronting him, Ursula seduces him, using her mother's recorded words as a kind of script to reawaken his former desires. Gérard is haunted but captivated by Ursula's resemblance to Leonora, and the lines between memory and reality begin to blur.

Meanwhile, Edmund, aimless and adrift in the wake of his mother's death, finds solace in the company of Laura (Laura Gemser), Gérard's current lover and housekeeper. Laura takes on a protective yet sensual role toward Edmund, eventually initiating him into sexual maturity. Their relationship develops quietly, contrasting the intensity of Ursula's psychological seduction.

Ursula continues to manipulate Gérard, replicating specific scenes from the tapes in a twisted form of erotic inheritance. Eventually, Gérard becomes conflicted and emotionally worn, unable to separate Ursula from Leonora in his mind. This culminates in a psychological breakdown where desire, grief, and guilt collapse into one.

The film closes with Ursula returning to the estate, seemingly victorious in reclaiming and reanimating her mother's erotic legacy. Edmund, more emotionally grounded, shares a final moment of calm with Laura. The camera lingers on the empty halls and flickering candles of Leonora's house - a once-vibrant domain now haunted by the echoes of love, lust, and longing.