Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.
Silvana Mangano | Suzanne Dufresne |
Anthony Perkins | Michael |
Richard Conte | Michael |
Jo Van Fleet | Mme. Dufresne |
Alida Valli | Claude |
Nehemiah Persoff | Albert Legros |
Guido Celano | Bart |
Chu Shao Chuan | Caporal |
Yvonne Sanson | Carmen |
Larry Williams | Roland |