Based on a terrifying true murder committed in the summer of 1987 in the splendid Italian coastal town of Positano, and still remembered today as the “suitcase murder”, NO APPARENT MOTIVE traces the fragments of a young woman’s life and the horror of the fateful night.
It was the height of summer, in August of 1987, that the highly tragic yet coldly methodical details of the murder committed by the young woman Rita captured the public’s attention on front-pages everywhere. Three years before, Rita had been brutally raped by three hooded aggressors in the presence of her fiancé. The incident shattered her peaceful life forever. Her fiancé, a respectable pharmacist in their small town, kept her from reporting the rape and soon broke off their engagement…