The girl Anna, whose dark hair and eyes reminded Mario of Carla, his wife, had known from the moment she first saw him that Mario was a man tortured by some secret fear. She'd watched him closely ever since she'd agreed to let him work as janitor in a shabby rooming house. She felt that 'Tony' (the name he'd given her) was from the country, and that he was in hiding - but she had no idea that he thought he was a murderer...