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.
as Cesira
as Michele Di Libero
as Giovanni
as Rosetta
as Filippo, il padre di Michele
as un fasciste
as un fermier
as Maria
as La madre impazzita
as une évacuée
as Scimmione
as il tedesco nel pagliaio
as Peppuccio
as ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea
as Lawyer (uncredited)
as Il piccolo Alessandro (uncredited)
as Il passeggero sul treno (uncredited)
as Florindo (uncredited)