خلاصه داستان : دریانورد آمریکایی در سال 1944 به ناپل می‌رود، عاشق دختری بومی می‌شود و صاحب فرزند می‌شود. او مجبور به ترک آنها می‌شود و بعدا به شهر تغییر یافته باز می‌گردد.

In 1944 Dean Barry, an American sailor, 23, arrives in Naples, a city destroyed by bombing after the liberation of Italy. Dean meets Lucia, a young and very poor girl with whom he falls madly in love. Two years later, at the end of his service, Dean has to return to New Jersey and Lucia remains in Naples, alone and pregnant.