It remains a in the erotic thriller genre.
In between his innumerable hardcore porn assignments in 1995, director Joe D'Amato took time out to film this soft-core quickie. The story centers on Carlo (Gianni Demartiis), the dunderheaded proprietor of a rural tavern, whose pretty/plain wife, Amelia (Erika Savastani), is cool to his horny advances. Although they are physically intimate, she does not enjoy it, tries hard to avoid it, and is even tearful during one passive bedroom encounter. Provocation 1995 Movie Wiki