Maria Adele, an intense Italian teenager, is an amazing chess player. When the story begins, we watch her competing with about ten people in a sort of tournament where she is going to dazzle her older, and perhaps more skilled opponents. Maria Adele comes from a comfortable home; her father is a university music professor, a sort of expert on Rossini. Emilio, a journalist covering the event, is impressed watching her play. Maria Adele has a mentor, Sterlizia, who has guided her progress as a champion chess player. Emilio has also curious about this man,who will soon be at the center of a controversy as a pedophile.
This young woman decides to go over some of the papers left by her late mother stored in a trunk. She is in for the biggest surprise of her life as she discovers a letter in which her dead mother talks about her adoption. Maria Adele sets out to find out her biological mother. Consulting a judge that deals in cases like hers, she gets an important advice: beware of what you might find out! Some things are better let alone.
In her quest, Maria Adele finds out her real mother is an assassin that served time for killing her father. The older woman lives alone, trying to get on with her life. As Maria Adele begins getting closer to her real mother, she finds out the horrible truth about her parents and the real reason for the killing of her father.
Directed by Claudia Florio, the film offers a look at a young woman whose life comes to a stop when facing a secret that has been kept from her. If only Maria Adele would have followed the advice she got as she started looking for the mother she never knew, she would have been spared of a revelation that she never expected. A secret revealed also serves to bring shame to the girl's mentor when his sordid past comes to shake his existence.
Barbara Bobulova, who plays Maria Adele, shows an actress well suited for the role. Ms. Bobulova is the best thing in the film. Others seen in supporting roles are Toni Bertorelli, Valeria D'Obici and Ettore Bassi.
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