Since her husband pronounced her frigid on her wedding night, Antonia DeAngelis has been an invalid. When he disappears, she believes him dead: she leaves her bed and takes over his business, traveling to see clients. She discovers her husband's passions, his political writing, mistresses, and his indifference to the peasants on her family's land. She improves their lot, begins an affair with a young foreign doctor, and publishes her husband's writings. All this time, he's hiding from a murder charge in a house across the square. Amazed, he watches her become his sexual and social equal. After the police drop the murder charge, will he disappear, end his life, or rejoin her on new terms? 　　译文(2): 自从她的丈夫在她的新婚之夜宣布她性冷淡，安东尼娅 DeAngelis 已经是一个病人。当他消失的时候，她相信他已经死了: 她离开自己的床，接管了他的生意，旅行去见客户。她发现她丈夫的激情，他的政治写作，情妇，和他对农民在她家的土地上的漠不关心。她改善了他们的命运，与一位年轻的外国医生开始了婚外情，并出版了她丈夫的著作。一直以来，他都躲在广场对面的房子里躲避谋杀指控。他惊讶地看着她成为他的性别和社会平等。警方撤销谋杀指控后，他会消失，结束自己的生命，还是重新和她在一起？