It is 1943 and Rome is being bombed. Cesira, a young widow, flees the capital with her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta. She returns to her native village of Santa Eufemia in the mountainous region of Ciociaria. She entrusts her grocery store to Giovanni, her coal-mining neighbour. The journey is dangerous, under a hail of bullets. Life is hard for the refugees. Michele, a young idealist, falls in love with Cesira and turns the head of Rosetta.

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