Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.
Mariangela Melato
as Mara Castorelli
Delphine Seyrig
as Adriana Vivanti
Lou Castel
as Osvaldo
Aurore Clément
as Angelica Vivanti
Fabio Carpi
as Fabio Colarosa
Marcella Michelangeli
as Viola Vivanti
Isa Danieli
as Livia
Alfonso Gatto
as Padre Vivanti
Eriprando Visconti
as Filippo
Renato Romano
as Oreste
Adriana Innocenti
as Matilde
Costantino Carrozza
as marito di Livia
