Two Women (1960)

Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village and onward, the mother does everything she can to protect Rosetta. Meanwhile, a sensitive young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira.

• bombed church
• italy
• moroccans
• parent child relationship
• peasant
• rape
• refugee
• remote village
• return to birthplace
• rome
• shopkeeper
• single mother
• wartime
• widow
• world war ii
• young scholar