After years of working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand and reestablish contact with her 16-year-old son, whom she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her shady past, and her troubled son appears doomed to a life of crime and violence.
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After years of working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand and reestablish contact with her 16-year-old son, whom she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her shady past, and her troubled son appears doomed to a life of crime and violence.
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