An American architect comes to Italy to oversee an exhibition dedicated to his hero, but becomes obsessed with the task. As he becomes consumed with paranoia and racked with severe stomach pains, his neglected wife is driven to seek solace in the arms of his professional rival. Peter Greenaway's drama, starring Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb and Lambert Wilson.

Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.