Federico Fellini ventured into the dream world of his characters in some of his films. In this story, Giulietta is a happy housewife who starts to suspect her husband is cheating on her. He makes up excuses to leave her alone in the house for several days, pretending he is on business trips. We then start to see strange characters appear in the house, who talk to Giulietta. We, as spectators, are soon drawn into these strange appearances, and it all looks like a circus show, with people appearing at every corner of the house, jumping and dancing all around. This is, of course, all in Giuiletta’s mind. This is interesting because Fellini wanted to show us what Giuiletta was thinking all the time with the help of these imaginary characters.
A private investigator soon confirms Giuiletta’s doubts about her husband: he is having an affair with a younger woman. Instead of freaking out and getting mad, she acts calmly and with no hurry. At the end, it seems these strange characters have helped her cope with her problem. At the end we see her leave the house. What will she do? Will she go away and leave everything behind, or is she just taking one of her usual walks thru her huge garden? Fellini will leave you guessing until the very end.
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