In a small, very poor town, Claire Zachanassian arrives, an eccentric, fabulously rich old lady who proposes to give to the habitants a large amount of money under one condition: to kill one fellow citizen of them, named Ill, who, when Claire was seventeen years old, he left her with a child, becoming the cause to be turned out disgracefully from her country. Leaving her country though, she had sworn to come back to take revenge. In the beginning everyone turns down the proposal, later however the interest undermines their virtue, and their greed transforming everybody in grasping murderers. The visit becomes a monstrous allegory of the money, which corrupts the consciousness, levels the ethical principles to the ground, prostitutes the feelings and creates a world new order.
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