Raffaella, a rich, beautiful, and acid-tongued Milanese who has charted a yacht, and Gennarino, a swarthy Sicilian deckhand of the working class, are marooned on an isolated island in the Mediterranean. She is a capitalist for whom the system has paid off, he is a dedicated Communist. Cut off from society, Gennarino quickly reverses their roles, stripping Raffaella of pride and vanity. A provocative film that became an enormous art-house success in the U.S., Swept Away put writer-director Lina Wertmüller on the map.