Synopsis

When a conservative young American goes to Rome to retrieve his father's body after the father's death in a road accident, he meets a young English woman who is in Rome to retrieve her mother's body after the mother's death in the same road accident. The young man is shocked to learn that the woman's mother was his father's lover and had been for years, but as he battles with his disbelief, he also falls in love with the young woman and the two set up an arrangement similar to that of their parents.