Restless and untutored in the ways of love and sex, an aristocratic Sicilian teenager becomes naively enmeshed in a game of erotic cruelty with his older, married aunt, causing a scandal in their seemingly devout and proper Catholic family. Morricone wrote 15 scores for Mauro Bolognini, the most prolific relationship of his career; That Splendid November shows the composer at his most lushly romantic.