Daniela Neseri carries the heavy toll of a traumatic past that began with a brutal rape in childhood. That wound stunted her emotional growth and left her unable to form healthy romantic connections with men. As she grows older, she learns that one of her female ancestors was executed for being accused of witchcraft, supposedly a werewolf, and Daniela bears a striking resemblance to that woman. This discovery unleashes vivid nightmares in which she transforms into a werewolf and is chased by furious villagers. The boundary between dream and reality blurs so completely that she starts acting on these impulses in the real world.
Her first deadly act is shocking: Daniela kills her sister’s lover after witnessing them together, and she conceals the murder by tossing the body over a cliff, making it look like a dog attack gone wrong. When the body is found near the cliff, she is declared unresponsive, and her family and doctors, including the 【Doctor in Car(/actor/felicita-fanny)**, believe the shock of the find overwhelmed her. Daniela is institutionalized, and her temperament wavers between moments of calm and sudden violence as the days pass.
Her fragile stability shatters when she escapes custody after killing a fellow patient who made unwanted advances toward her. On the run, Daniela murders a man who tries to rape her, and she is soon discovered by Luca Mondini, a handsome stuntman living on a movie set for Westerns. With Luca’s gentle care, she dares to hope she has moved beyond her illness, and for a time she experiences a genuine, tranquil romance. The world she inhabits—bright desert landscapes, dusty sets, and the rhythms of old Western cinema—offers a rare sense of safety, a place where her passion and tenderness briefly bloom.
But that fragile peace shatters when another resident of the same movie set breaks into Luca’s home with two companions and subjects Daniela to a brutal rape. Luca returns home and is killed, leaving Daniela’s already fragile mind in tatters. Fueled by grief and rage, she tracks down the perpetrators, exacting a brutal revenge by murdering them, one by one. The police and Daniela’s family close in, gathering evidence and clues as they search for the supposed werewolf figure who has become the talk of the town.
The pursuit culminates as Daniela flees into the forest near the very site connected to her ancestor’s death, convinced that she is still living as a nocturnal creature. She is captured and institutionalized once more, where her life comes to a bleak end. The weight of the Neseri family tragedy lands hard on her father, Count Neseri, who also takes his own life, leaving Daniela’s sister Elena to bear the last remnants of the Neseri name. The tale closes on a mournful note: a family fractured by history, trauma, and the unrelenting grip of a legend that locals once whispered about in the margins of the world they inhabited.
