| Overview: | Sophia Loren stars as Cesira, a devoted mother and a successful small business owner. When the Allies begin bombing Mussolini's Rome, Cesira and her 13 year-old daughter, Rosetta (Eleonora Brown), travel by train and foot to the countryside where Cesira was born.
The two women find food and shelter with other fugitives, and stand witness to some of the horrors of war. Resting inside of a church, mother and daughter are discovered and gang raped by a cruel band of soldiers. Rosetta is traumatized, and temporarily becomes mute. Before long, Rosetta's true feelings come to the surface in an outpouring of grief.
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