Against the wishes of her Aunt Valeria, attractive Milena travels to Milan in order to secretly marry Marco Giraldi. Three years later, Milena returns to her hometown Fermo, where her husband's shoe business is in financial difficulties. Shortly afterwards, she is abducted, a valuable painting is stolen and Aunt Valeriais murdered. Two young villains, who carried out the dirty work, are then killed...

Una condesa rica es advertida de que si da un cuadro valioso al ganador de un concurso, será asesinada. El resultado final es que la pintura es robada, la condesa asesinada, su sobrina secuestrada y la policía desconcertada. Pero los asesinatos continúan y el desastre no parece tener fin.