After the breakdown of the old government, and with it the First Republic, Italy changed for good in 1994. Spinster Leo is all too aware of this. He pushed hard to see Berlusconi get elected Prime Minister. He knows it's not easy to win power, but holding on to it verges on the impossible. By the same token, it seems equally impossible for populist politician Pietro to change. Even now that he has an office at the Prime Minister's premises in Rome, he still can't cast off his old bad habits. Nor can he forget the only woman he has ever loved. A former TV starlet now turned politician and Congresswoman, Veronica has to decide who the man of her life is going to be. She has realized she no longer wants to be just a woman on the arm of powerful men. It is the start of her own push for power.
Cheating Notes
Episode 5
Bossi and Bosco, political bigwigs, are invited to Prime Minister Berlusconi's Sardinian villa to discuss a coalition government. Leonardo, who works for the prime minister, asks his girlfriend Veronica to come to the villa to distract Pietro, the undersecretary of the new Interior Minister, who is with Bosco. Pietro is Veronica's ex-boyfriend. I am not sure if Leonardo just wants Veronica to accompany Pietro to keep him away from the negotiating table, or if he's telling her to do whatever it takes to distract him, including having sex with him.
So anyway, while Veronica and Pietro are hanging out on the beach, Pietro makes a move on Veronica, which she initially rejects (26:06). However, when Pietro stops accosting her and takes a few steps away, she approaches him and although crying a little bit, she doesn't reject him when he kisses her this time. She lets him screw her on the beach.
While a party goes on at the villa, Veronica showers naked with Pietro in his quarters (30:20) and has an after-sex bed scene with him (32:59).
At dawn, Veronica leaves leaves Pietro's quarters goes to the pool area, and talks to Leonardo (37:41). She tells him that what happened should be the last time. He then proposes to her and in the next few episodes, they get married.
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