A 13-year-old boy Renato (Giuseppe Sulfaro) falls in love with the lovely married woman named Malèna (Monica Bellucci). She then becomes the object of his adolescent fixation and voyeurism, spying...

A 13-year-old boy Renato (Giuseppe Sulfaro) falls in love with the lovely married woman named Malèna (Monica Bellucci). She then becomes the object of his adolescent fixation and voyeurism, spying on her whenever circumstances permit and imagining her as his leading lady in erotic fantasies inspired by his favorite movies. When her husband is reported to have died in combat, she is then forced to resort to prostitution in order to survive. After she was brutally attacked by a pack of angry matrons and driven from town, Renato tried to keep track of her and report her whereabouts to Nino who turns out to be alive and finds his missing spouse.