A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
Sophia Loren
Cesira
Eleonora Brown
Rosetta
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Michele Di Libero
Raf Vallone
Giovanni
Carlo Ninchi
Filippo, il padre di Michele
Andrea Checchi
un fasciste
Pupella Maggio
un fermier
Emma Baron
Maria
