Comedy-drama about a middle-aged Italian businessman Vittorio Gassman who is married to Eleanor Parker and is innocently introduced one day to a schoolgirl with pigtails named Carolina. Years later, the schoolgirl has become a promiscuous young woman (Ann-Margret) and she pursues him and sucks him into an on-again-off-…

蕾利（凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰）一直饱受未婚夫维特里奥（路易吉·万努基 Luigi Vannucchi 饰）那暴躁的脾气的折磨，终于，在结婚典礼举办四天前，忍无可忍的蕾利决定逃跑。在酒店里，维特里奥找到了蕾利，就在这个节骨眼上，一名陌生的男子出现并且帮助蕾利逃出生天。蕾利在偶然中得知该男子拥有一座无人岛，于是偷偷的跑到了岛上…

The film depicts the rise to power of Alcide de Gasperi and the Christian Democratic Party in post war Italy and ends with de Gasperi's retirement in 1954.It is both a personal film (Rossellini makes no secret of his admiration for de Gasperi) whilst at the same time it does not lose sight of the historical context (de…