A 1950s Italian melodrama where trauma meets toxic romance — buckle up, it's messy.
A farmer's daughter falls in love with a sheepherder who raped her.
Cinematography
Harsh pastoral beauty that frames suffering like classical painting.
Acting
Luisa Rossi's trembling resolve carries the unspeakable.
Director
Roberto Bianchi Montero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Italy's post-neorealist 'melodramma' wave, where social issues got the soap opera treatment for mass audiences.
Director Montero later pivoted to peplum and giallo — this early work shows his taste for exploitation before the genres had names.
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