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.
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Silvana Mangano as Suzanne Dufresne
Anthony Perkins as Joseph Dufresne
Richard Conte as Michael
Jo Van Fleet as Mme. Dufresne
Alida Valli as Claude
Nehemiah Persoff as Albert Legros
Guido Celano as Bart
Chu Shao Chuan as Caporal
Yvonne Sanson as Carmen
Larry Williams as Roland
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