 Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being shot on location in Venice. It is not long before they fall in love and their romance parallels that of Shakespeare s timeless heroes. Indeed their union is threatened by the schemings of Angelo, the Magia family s dubious tout...