A Milanese doctor has a gravely ill son, who craves an onion. His wife persuades the doctor to not allow his son it, and he died. The doctor learns that the onion would have cured his son, kills his wife (the boy's mother) and then himself.
Adapted from Wikeley (1983) by Ava Byrne.
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