Alba first tells a story about how her mother abandoned her when she was a little girl and she ended up as the kept woman of a wealthy Arab in Saudi Arabia, while Natasha later shares a story of her abusive father and her twin sister's career as an art historian.Įventually, the two women tell each other the truth.

Alba and Natasha share stories, periodically stopping to illustrate their points with pictures on the Internet, talk about the artwork in the hotel room, and explore each other's nude bodies through sex. Over the next 10 hours, Alba and Natasha grow closer to each other as Natasha becomes more relaxed and comfortable around Alba with their lovemaking. Natasha soon succumbs to her attraction and curiosity towards Alba, leading her to quickly get undressed once again and into bed where she and Alba have sex for the first time. While talking about the location of Natasha's hotel and looking at an old map of Rome from the 1st century, Alba continues to flirt with Natasha with her naked body. When a passing night-shift waiter named Max passes by, Alba grabs Natasha and takes her back into the room. Natasha soon returns and asks Alba for her cell phone, but is reluctant to enter the room again. In her rush to leave, Natasha leaves her cell phone behind, and the ring-tone wakes up Alba. Natasha quietly gets out of bed, gets dressed and leaves the room, wondering what would have happened if she stayed and consummated her curiosity and attraction to Alba. They do so until Alba becomes so relaxed that she falls asleep.

Alba suggests that they first lay side by side and only casually touch each other's faces. Alba counters by claiming that she is a lesbian and has never had sex with a man.Īlba and Natasha first get undressed and into bed, but Natasha is still very nervous. Flattered and tempted by Alba, Natasha responds to her sexual advances, but continues to maintain that she is straight and has never had sex with a woman. Once in the room, Natasha is at first quite reluctant, insisting she's straight, but the clearly more experienced Alba deftly overcomes Natasha's hesitance. The details of how they met in a nightclub are left vague. During the first day of the summer in June, Alba ( Elena Anaya), a 30-something Spanish tourist in Rome, brings a younger Russian woman Natasha ( Natasha Yarovenko) to her hotel room during the last night of both their vacations in Rome.

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