- In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
- Cesira is a beautiful widow and a successful grocery-store owner in Rome. WWII is raging, and she fears for her beloved daughter, 13-year-old Rosetta, amid the daily bombings. They travel to the village where Cesira was born, where she believes they will be safer, and they're happy there, even as food dwindles. A young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira, who is too consumed with their survival and her daughter's well-being to return his timid advances. As the Allies advance, Cesira decides to return to Rome--and encounter the horrors of war at last.—jcravens42@yahoo.com
- To flee from yet another devastating attack during the Allied bombing of Rome on July 19, 1943, widowed mother Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta leave the capital behind to find shelter in the rugged, mountainous region of Cesira's birthplace: Ciociara. There, amid hunger and deprivation, the two women will stumble upon Michele di Libero, the village's charming young intellectual, who is everything Cesira needs: a loving husband for her and a caring father for Rosetta. But the war is far from other. Can the three of them live a normal life back in Rome in the aftermath of the costly Second World War?—Nick Riganas
- During WWII, widowed thirty-something Cesira, a grocer in Rome, devotes herself to her innocent 13-year-old daughter Rosetta, sometimes at the expense of finding love for herself, knowingly still a desirable woman. She can probably admit to herself that she never really loved her older husband. It is to protect emotionally and physically fragile Rosetta that Cesira decides for them to escape the bombing in Rome for her small hometown of Sant'Eufemia for the duration of the war. Soon after their arrival, Cesira discovers that she can't escape the war or its effects, not only the result of the struggles she and her fellow villagers have in the basics such as putting food on the table, but that the village is still in the center of the war: it is occupied by the Nazis, Allied planes fly over targeting the Nazis with the innocent seemingly-acceptable collateral damage, and British spies are in their midst. Despite their differences in he focusing on his political ideology while she focuses on the issue of the basics of her and Rosetta's lives, 25-year-old intellectual Michele Di Libero, an anti-fascist, falls in love with Cesira. She returns some feelings for him despite their age difference, partly because Rosetta has formed a bond with him. In light of this situation, Cesira ends up making some fateful decisions that will forever affect her and Rosetta's relationship, and their lives.—Huggo
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