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A young priest in a remote Sardinian village becomes secretly drawn to an isolated woman, prompting his devoted mother to follow him one stormy night. The narrative compresses intense events into two days, blending external action with inward turmoil to examine conscience, religious duty, desire, and communal superstition. The work focuses on psychological portraiture—maternal fear, the priest's conflicting impulses, and the community's primitive customs—culminating in a simple, inevitable tragedy shaped by forces both personal and societal.
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For those words, the variant more frequently used was retained.
Obvious punctuation errors were fixed. Other printing errors, which were not detected during the revision of the printing process of the original book, have been corrected.
A Table of Content was added before the Translator's Note.
The book cover was modified by the transcriber and added to the Public Domain.