After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.
Ingrid Thulin
Agnese
Stefano Satta Flores
Il Comandante
Michele Placido
Tom
Aurore Clément
Rina
Ninetto Davoli
La Disperata
William Berger
Clinto
Flavio Bucci
Pugliese
Rosalino Cellamare
Zero
Alfredo Pea
Tonitti
Aldo Reggiani
Soldato Sbandato
Gino Santercole
Piròn
Dina Sassoli
Minghina
