This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an uncle is transformed by Roberto Rossellini into a passionate story of cruelty and cynicism as their marriage disintegrates around them.
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
