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No one considered the case in which passion can lead a person astray, at least in the mind of him or her who suffers the consequences. The passion, which motivated Adolf Hitler or Nikolai Lenin, for instance, has been shown to have stirred violent feelings in those who resisted them.

In the film Hometown Blues from France, a discontented, childless wife, living in a provincial town, overturned at one go the life that she and her bewildered husband had planned, as she pursued her will-o-the-wisp career in singing.

The film from Poland, Ever Never, illustrates how a wife, abruptly abandoned by her husband who runs to a younger woman, can take hold of her destiny and re-fashion her future.

The film from Italy, Facing Windows presents us with Giovanna, a wife, a mother and worker in a low-paying, miserable job. She fantasises about an attractive single man whom she views through her window in an adjoining block. She acts upon her passion, but with less than satisfying results.

Everyday life in Japan is, for me, all but entirely unknown. In the film from Japan, First Love, we learn of the passion of a mother for a man other than the man she married, and of her daughter's desire to find this man and bring him back into the situation. A recipe for disaster, you might say, and indeed one which ends with the daughter's passion less than satisfied.