"Women today are disgusting!" So conclude the women-including the mother of the plaintiff-standing outside the courtroom of the trial of four men for the rape of eighteen-year-old Fiorella. A Trial for Rape is the record of an actual trial which took place in the court of Latina, Naples, in 1978, the proceedings of which were taped by a six-woman video collective and edited into a one-hour program for Italian television. Thus all of Italy witnessed the real-life drama of which this documentary is made, its story the more predictable for being true. For, in keeping with custom, by the end of the trial it is Fiorella who is painted the culprit. The scenes outside the courtroom and interviews with the defendants expose without difficulty the explicit and deep societal support for this stance. Still, the "surprise ending" of this emotional drama is as much a surprise to us as to the defendants.