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
as Cesira
Jean-Paul Belmondo
as Michele Di Libero
Raf Vallone
as Giovanni
Eleonora Brown
as Rosetta
Carlo Ninchi
as Filippo, il padre di Michele
Andrea Checchi
as un fasciste
Pupella Maggio
as un fermier
Emma Baron
as Maria
Antonella Della Porta
as La madre impazzita
Bruna Cealti
as une évacuée
Luciano Pigozzi
as Scimmione
Franco Balducci
as il tedesco nel pagliaio
