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Mariuccia and Sante have 7 children from multiple pregnancies. Biki and Adelina want them to move out so they can rent their room to earn more money. Adelina wonder what has become of her cousin Isotta who now ignores the whole family. Unbeknownst to her Isotta works as a prostitute in order to send money back to her family in the countryside.
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Adelina but she insists that they remain chaste as she is an old-fashioned country girl from Sicily despite the fact that her fashion, career and lifestyle are increasingly citified and Milanese. When Carletto proposes to Adelina she tells him to get a better job. Carletto
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