Claudia Cardinale credited as playing...
Rosa Nicolosi
- Rosa Nicolosi: Where am I going? It's just that I'm ashamed of this dress and these bare arms. I'm in. mourning aren't I? So I should dress in mourning.
- Capt. Bellodi: Has someone threatened you?
- Rosa Nicolosi: My husband has a clean record.
- Capt. Bellodi: I know. I know, but it's difficult to look for a needle in a haystack - and your husband, in Sicily, is like a needle.
- Police Sergeant: Why come and look for chicory and cabbages right here?
- Rosa Nicolosi: And why not? Am I doing something wrong? The chicory doesn't belong to anyone. It's just chicory.
- Police Sergeant: Everything belongs to someone, even the chicory.
- Capt. Bellodi: Maybe at this moment your husband needs help - a lot of help. And what's his wife doing? She's silent. Doesn't want to help. Just what kind of wife is she?
- Rosa Nicolosi: I'd give my blood for him.
- Capt. Bellodi: Why did you go see Don Mariano?
- Rosa Nicolosi: To see whether I could sell him something - some eggs.
- Pizzuco: You have a beautiful daughter! She'll be as pretty as you when she's older. I remember you were just like that. I watched you grow up.
- Rosa Nicolosi: So, what did you want to tell me?
- Pizzuco: I'll have a glass of wine, if that's okay. I came to tell you that you're beautiful. Doesn't that please you?
- Pizzuco: You've ruined my life Rosa. All those times that you passed in front of my house or when I'd meet you and you'd look at me with those eyes. Y'know Rosa?
- Rosa Nicolosi: Don't be a fool. I've never once thought about you.
- Pizzuco: That's what you say.
- Rosa Nicolosi: Now that you've had your drink you can go. Your hand.
- Pizzuco: What a light dress you've got on
- Rosa Nicolosi: Your hand! What do you think? You think you can do that if I don't want it? Ah, take a walk! You'll just have to do with your whore of a wife! Don't touch me with those hands! They make me sick! Think you can molest a woman? Get out!
- Capt. Bellodi: Let's suppose that I'm mistaken and that he returns home and when he returns what does he find? A person that decent women don't stop to say hello to, someone who men stop on the street as if they could take her to bed whenever they wanted?
- Rosa Nicolosi: Well, it's better that he doesn't return then.
- Capt. Bellodi: Rosa, let these people hang!
- Rosa Nicolosi: Where do you think I live, Captain? I live among these people and when I walk past it's as if they're undressing me with they're eyes. I feel naked!
- Don Mariano Arena: What am I? Your pimp?
- Rosa Nicolosi: No! No, you are not my pimp. I don't have a pimp. I have nothing to be ashamed of!
- Rosa Nicolosi: I did what I could.
- Capt. Bellodi: No! Like the others, you did what I told you to do! You did nothing of your own will. Nothing!