Asia Argento was so sadly beautifully in the film that it really kept me wondering what she would go through next. she shadows an aging professor (piccoli), whose daughter, ada, has hired her to follow around rome so that he would not get lost in town. then he travels all across europe and she follows him wondering where they would end up next. it ends up with asia'a character, cora, growing up and taking responsibility for her own actions and a developing a true compassion for the professor and eventually herself. (she disagrees with her brother to kidnap the prof and instead helps him get away). along the journey, cora discovers herself and a direction to move her life into. before her enlightenment, cora sleeps with various men to seemingly distract herself from her apparent depression and tries to kill herself later by jumping off a bridge after making friends with a girl working at a factory near the bridge. the "baptism" seems to awaken her to the positive possibilities of life and in the end she runs into the prof again and seems to feel a comfort that they are in this big world together as travelling companions. i love asia argento and bought the DVD! love asia!
Review of Traveling Companion
