It would be very improbable for a married couple to represent opposite sides of a criminal case.]The film""s title was a clear reference to the Genesis story of Adam and Eve (the male film lead was named Adam)...I-I-I wanna make love with you," but she was uninterested.She only smiled and insensitively laughed at him.Jake then recanted his desires and headed upstairs crying, where he was murdered when an upraised meat cleaver was brought down on him(# 15 death)(off-screen).Chilton.The film""s setting then moved to Florence, Italy, where Chief Police Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi of the Questura (Giancarlo Giannini) was involved in determining the reason for the disappearance of the Capponi Library""s curator Signore de Bonaventura, who headed up the repository of rare books, historical documents, and art treasures housed in a Renaissance-styled palace.The film reflected the dire effects of the Great Depression on the common man in its story of a WWI veteran who faced unemployment, was unjustly convicted of a petty robbery, and then twice served and escaped from a southern chain gang as a hunted fugitive during he 1920s.