Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?

• DirectorValerio Zurlini
• Release13 November 1959
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration1h 36m
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• Rate
  

  7.2
  75 reviews
• Productions

  Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.), Titanus