After he survives an ambush beside a remote Swedish lake, an American hit man goes to Rome and contacts his control, Pavel, who sends him to an Abruzzian town with the warning, "No friends." He takes one look and goes instead to nearby Castelvecchio where he poses as a photographer and waits for his control to take care of the Swedish problem. While waiting, his control gives him a job constructing a special weapon for a Belgian assassin, he converses with the town's priest, and he spends the occasional night with Clara, a local prostitute. After the priest calls him out on his profession and the Swedes get a line on his whereabouts, is it time to get out?

Father Benedetto:
[speaking to Jack] You cannot deny the existence of hell. You live in it. It is a place without love.


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Continuity: When Jack and Mathilde first meet outside the cafe, the scene has two shots: one facing Jack, the other facing Mathilde, switching between the two as they talk. When the camera is facing Jack, Mathilde has her sunglasses in her hand, but when the camera is facing Mathilde, the sunglasses are on the table. The position of the sunglasses on the table also shift during the course of the scene.

Written by Ruggero Cini, Francesco Migliacci, and Bruno Zambrini
Performed by Patty Pravo
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment (Italy) s.p.a.
by arrangement with Sony Music Licensing