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After butcher Michele scars Assunta in a jealous attack, he is arrested and imprisoned. Assunta begins an affair with a court official, unaware he has a family; when Michele is released and learns the truth, he kills the official, and Assunta takes the blame.
Tubercular dyer Vito vows to marry a prostitute if God cures him. He promises Cristina he will rescue her from the brothel, but he continues his affair with Amalia. After seeing them together, Cristina pleads with him to keep his vow; Vito leaves with Amalia, and Cristina returns to the brothel and faints.
On Easter Sunday, Carmela visits a Naples orphanage with a cake for the son she left there. She tells her childhood friend Suor Pazienza and the Mother Superior that she was seduced and abandoned, then had to leave her child at the orphanage after marrying a man who rejected him. While Carmela prays in the chapel, the nuns report that her son died the night before. The Mother Superior tells Carmela that the boy is at choir practice, and Carmela leaves in tears.
After butcher Michele scars Assunta in a jealous attack, he is arrested and imprisoned. Assunta begins an affair with a court official, unaware he has a family; when Michele is released and learns the truth, he kills the official, and Assunta takes the blame.
Tubercular dyer Vito vows to marry a prostitute if God cures him. He promises Cristina he will rescue her from the brothel, but he continues his affair with Amalia. After seeing them together, Cristina pleads with him to keep his vow; Vito leaves with Amalia, and Cristina returns to the brothel and faints.
On Easter Sunday, Carmela visits a Naples orphanage with a cake for the son she left there. She tells her childhood friend Suor Pazienza and the Mother Superior that she was seduced and abandoned, then had to leave her child at the orphanage after marrying a man who rejected him. While Carmela prays in the chapel, the nuns report that her son died the night before. The Mother Superior tells Carmela that the boy is at choir practice, and Carmela leaves in tears.