Amsterdam

Molly Lane has died at the age of forty-six. She was a very free woman, very seductive, and the four most important men in her life are present at her funeral: Clive Linley, famous musician; Vernon Halliday, journalist and editor of one of the country's great newspapers; George Lane, her powerful and billionaire husband, and Julian Garmony, a notorious right-wing politician, current Foreign Minister and candidate for Prime Minister. Clive and Vernon have been friends since the distant happy sixties, and they were both Molly's lovers when they were all young, idealistic, and poor. George, the husband, entered much later in the life of the fascinating woman and could never fully possess her, except in the terrible final period, of descent into the hells of memory loss and mental disintegration, in which she became in his relentless caretaker and jailer. And with respect to Garmony, representative of the purest and hardest right and everything that Vernon, Clive and Molly hated throughout their lives, neither the journalist nor the musician can explain what it was that Molly saw in him, what a strange relationship united them. But they will find out a few days later when George, the husband, offers Vernon some spectacular photos of the future prime minister dressed in exciting women's clothes. Photos taken precisely by Molly, and that will be the starting shot of this fierce, cynical, biting moral fable.