Synopsis

Despite being a single mother and a woman of modest means who worked as a washerwoman, Rosalia refused to dissuade her son from pursuing a relationship with a girl, even when she herself feared the prospect of solitude. Yet, when love entered her own life, Billy met her affections with anger. At her age, Rosalia had long since ceased to anticipate being pulled between the sound reasoning of her son and the possibility of indulging in a joy she had not known for many years, a reward for the sacri