Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
Florinda Bolkan
as Clara Mataro
Renato Salvatori
as Franco Mataro, the husband
Daniel Quenaud
as Luigi, Clara's lover
José María Prada
as Ciranni
Teresa Gimpera
as Gina
Hugo Blanco
as The brother in law
Julia Peña
as Edvige
Miranda Campa
as Nurse Guidotti
Angela Cardile
as The redhead
Anna Carena
as The mother in law
Monica Guerritore
as Maria
Maria Mizar
as Nurse Garin