Il grido - The outcry (1957)

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the narrative follows aldo, a young refinery mechanic who, when faced with the sudden end of a seven-year affair with a married woman, abandons his past and embarks on an aimless quest with their young daughter in tow. his travels take him to the home of an old flame, to a filling station owned by a lonely widow on a desolate stretch of highway, and into the arms of a prostitute in an improverished fishing community. but he can find no relief from his undying love for irma and must return to her village, for a denouement that is unexpectedly shocking but inevitable.