Due sorelle amano

Naples. Anna is young, poor and very beautiful: all men look at her.

One day she meets Andrea, a sailor who pays a compulsory year of military service in her city and the two get engaged. They are a couple like many of the time: the chaste Sunday walk, the exchange of letters, the plan to get married as soon as possible.

Andrea leaves for a trip to the sea. Meanwhile, Anna is looking for work to be able to pay for the trousseau, but her beauty is an obstacle to her. She eventually gets a job as a commercial photo model at a photo studio. There she meets Doctor Illuminato, her impresario, who, despite her kind ways and the fact that he is married and her father, takes advantage of her. But only she Anna pays the consequences: she is now a woman "compromised" by this relationship.

By a twist of fate that same day at Anna's house the furniture she had bought for her dowry arrives, the real reason why all the events had set in motion. To avoid dishonor, the girl's family pretends that they have been paid with money from a lottery win. The embarrassment is such that Anna attempts suicide.

A few days later, Anna meets Andrea again, but he - having learned everything - abandons her, unable to forgive her (and also unnerved by the fact that the girl, recognizable on the advertising posters scattered around the city, is on everyone's lips).

The family tries to organize a shotgun wedding with the wealthy and mature Don Antonio, owner of four shops and related warehouses, but Anna, in front of the man, runs away: she can't do it. Her family isolates her more and more and therefore Anna decides to go and live alone, in another neighborhood.

But the money is scarce: Anna resells the furniture but even that sum runs out quickly. So she, taken by hunger and desperation, she gives in to the insistent courtship of the indulgent Don Antonio and becomes engaged to him. A few days later, however, Anna breaks the relationship: the man repels her and she seeks true love.

She lives with occasional jobs, until one day she meets Andrea again. He seems better disposed. They spend the afternoon and evening together, chatting. Then he goes up to her house, and they spend the night together. The next morning, however, Andrea returns to show jealousy for her episode with Illuminato and paradoxically reproaches her for the night just passed. She asks for understanding and forgiveness; he fears instead that she is too easy a girl and asks for more time. Anna in tears leaves.

She returns home with great embarrassment and fear but her family, with her great relief, welcomes her well.[1]

• Jone Salinas as Maria Pia
• Eleonora Rossi Drago as Marilù, Maria Pia's sister
• Peter Trent as Tom
• Maria Grazia Francia as Other sister
• Gaby Morlay as Sisters' mother
• Carlo Tamberlani as Sisters' father
• Marina Vlady

• Due sorelle amano at IMDb