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.
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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
Mario Frera as Peppuccio
Curt Lowens as ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea
Luciana Cortellesi as
Tony Calio as
Remo Galavotti as
Elsa Mancini as
Giuseppina Ruggeri as
Luigi Terribile as
Antonio Gastaldi as
Carolina Carbonaro as
Alberto Castaldi as Lawyer (uncredited)
Vincenzo Musolino as Il piccolo Alessandro (uncredited)
Ettore Mattia as Il passeggero sul treno (uncredited)