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.

• Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.)
• C. C. Champion
• Sophia Loren
• Jean-Paul Belmondo
• Raf Vallone
• Eleonora Brown
• Carlo Ninchi
• Andrea Checchi
• Pupella Maggio
• Emma Baron