L’eclisse opens with a nearly wordless sequence in which Vittoria (Vitti) breaks off a relationship. She then drifts downtown and into a love affair with her mother’s young stockbroker, Piero (Alain Delon). Frenzied scenes of the Stock Exchange provide a hub for this masterful film’s study of personal relationships in modern society. Men embrace as they whisper treacherous secrets, while Vittoria, when touched, recoils. Still, she seeks symbols of freedom. L’eclisse famously ends with a seven-minute montage of shots of the spots where Vittoria and Piero met—a montage over time in which neither of the characters appears.