TWO WOMEN: Cesira and her 13-year old daughter, Rosetta, flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War. They travel to the village where Cersira was born. During their journey in the village they both get rapped by soldiers hiding in a church. This cruel event is too much for Cesira and she suffers from a breakdown. During their stay in the village, a young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira who does not know how to reply to the advances of such a gentleman. Yesterday Today & Tomorrow: Stories about three very different women and the men they attract…Adelina sells black-market cigarettes in Naples, is married, and faces a jail sentence. In Milan, Anna drives a Rolls, is bored, and picks up a writer. She talks dreamily of running off with him until he dents her car. Mara, a Roman call girl, turns the head of a naive seminarian, prompting a run-in with his granny and a vow of abstinence.