With a fervent yearning for respectability and enough money to buy herself a brand-new life in Rome, the uninhibited, fearless, and determined former streetwalker, , renounces her ignominious past to reunite with her loafing sixteen-year-old son, Ettore. Free at last from her disgusting pimp and ex-lover, Carmine, Roma is bent on making an honest living running a humble vegetable stall; however, a malicious extortion scheme and the equally insidious menace of exposure threaten to put an end to her zealous aspirations for a decent bourgeois existence. For his own sake, Ettore must be spared the violence of the grown-up world; nevertheless, can a single mother alone protect her only son from the same snares that wounded her youth?

Starring:

Anna Magnani , Ettore Garofolo , Franco Citti , Silvana Corsini , Luisa Loiano , Paolo Volponi , Luciano Gonini , Vittorio La Paglia , Piero Morgia , Franco Ceccarelli , Marcello Sorrentino , Sandro Meschino , Franco Tovo , Pasquale Ferrarese , Leandro Santarelli

Genre:

Drama