There's a girl like her in every town!
Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.
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Massimo Girotti
Nando Mancini
Roberto Rossellini
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Marcello Pagliero
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
Guglielmo Santangelo
Screenplay
Giuseppe De Santis
Screenplay
Diego Calcagno
Screenplay
Rosario Leone
Screenplay
Franco Magli
Producer
Federico D'Avack
Producer
Ugo Lombardi
Director of Photography
Rodolfo Lombardi
Director of Photography
Renzo Rossellini
Original Music Composer
Virgilio Marchi
Production Design
