阿尔卑斯山脚下的小镇上，大雾引发了一场交通事故，失事司机就是前来调查少女失踪案的警探沃格尔（托尼·塞尔维洛 饰），中学教师,导师,师长,恩师马提尼（阿莱西奥·博尼 饰）是他锁定的嫌犯。在心理医生弗洛里斯（让·雷诺 饰演,出演,演出,表演,出演,担纲,担当）的疏导下，沃格尔缓缓道出幕后真相，一场酝酿已久的更大阴谋也逐渐显露真容。
　　改编自畅销全球的惊悚小说《雾中的女孩》。

　　During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets Onofrio Principato and Sebastiano Vella, two actors rehearsing a new show with the actors of their amateur dramatics. This meeting brings great surprises.

For Le Genou d'Artemide Jean-Marie Straub once again chose a dialogue by Cesare Pavese. And not just any dialogue, but one that tears open a painful, mystical abyss between love and the one left behind. The film is one single exhilaration and one single rush, a spell and dispersion into nature. It rises from a dark screen and chant to disappear in the woods with the whisper of the wind. It has little to do with what is generally called «cinema». It has one foot in the world beyond. Nature has ten million times the imagination of the most imaginative of artists. (Jean-Marie Straub)

由都灵的Ambrosio公司拍摄于1908年，这是Edward Bulwer-Lytton历史小说诸多改编中的第一部，这部影片大获成就,胜利,凯旋,成果，从此意大利电影就与历史奇观片（historical spectacle)画上了等号。最后九分钟的血色庞贝的毁灭，运用了染色法