For everyone who has had a private moment of love. Or wishes for one.
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Writer: Cesare Zavattini, Rafael J. Salvia
Story: Rodolfo Sonego
Producer: Marina Cicogna, Arthur Cohn
Director of Photography: Ennio Guarnieri
Clara Mataro
Franco Mataro, the husband
Luigi, Clara's lover
Ciranni
Gina
The brother in law
Edvige
Nurse Guidotti