Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.
Massimo Girotti
as Nando Mancini
Carlo Ninchi
as Giovanni Mirelli
Elli Parvo
as Paola Previtali (as Elly Parvo)
Roswita Schmidt
as Anna Previtali Mancini
Lia Corelli
as Elena
Francesco Grandjacquet
as Riccardo
