la figlia del forzato (1954)

adele saliceti meets in calabria a man who was, once upon a time, his lover. he lives with a maid and with little emma. the woman tries to reconquer the man, but to no avail. meanwhile, a convict evaded, conrad, who is the true father of emma, ??arrives with the thousands of garibaldi. the man does not reveal his identity or even that his wife is the maid of the palmieri house. he will prefer, for the sake of his family, to disappear into thin air and die in battle.