As the German army prepares to enter Rome, widowed shopkeeper Cesira packs a few provisions, sews her life savings into the seams of her dress, and flees south with her naive teenage daughter Rosetta to her native province of Ciociaria, a poor, mountainous region famous for providing the domestic servants of Rome. For nine months the two women endure hunger, cold, and filth as they await the arrival of the Allied forces. But the liberation, when it comes, brings unexpected tragedy.
In Two Women, Moravia offers up an intimate portrayal of the anguish and destruction wrought by war, as devastating behind the lines as it is on the battlefield. Written in 1957, the novel was made into a film in 1960 starring Sophia Loren and Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Vittorio De Sica.
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