A painter, who is extremely attached to his cat, is ostracised by his wife who feels envy and is convinced that, for him, she means less than the cat.«This is a short moral story - that anticipates some of Rohmer's works - set in a close environment, with a circular dramatic structure, perfect in the descriptions of the characters, severe in the showing of the man-woman conflict. It is an example of a micro-drama solved with a clearness and strictness (and cruelty) that we will find later - though articulated in a different way in later pictures as 'La paura' and 'Anima nera'.»Gianni Rondolino, 'Roberto Rosselini', Torino, UTET, 1989