Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.
Silvana Mangano
Suzanne Dufresne
Anthony Perkins
Joseph Dufresne
Richard Conte
Michael
Jo Van Fleet
Mme. Dufresne
Alida Valli
Claude
Nehemiah Persoff
Albert Legros
Guido Celano
Bart
Chu Shao Chuan
Caporal
