- An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.
- With a fervent yearning for respectability and enough money to buy herself a brand-new life in Rome, the uninhibited, fearless, determined former streetwalker Mamma Roma renounces her ignominious past to reunite with her loafing 16-year-old son Ettore. Free at last from her disgusting pimp and ex-lover Carmine, Roma is bent on making an honest living running a humble vegetable stall, but a malicious extortion scheme and the equally insidious menace of exposure threaten to put an end to her zealous aspirations for a decent bourgeois existence. For his own sake, Ettore must be spared the violence of the adult world; nevertheless, can a lone single mother protect her only son from the same snares that wounded her youth?—Nick Riganas
- Forty-five year old Mamma Roma's five year stint working as a prostitute in Rome for her twenty-two year old pimp Carmine is coming to an end as Carmine has just gotten married, they both leaving this part of their lives behind them. With what money she has been able to save, Roma has just bought a new flat in a nicer area of the city where she plans to live with her seventeen year old son Ettore, who she gave up when he was an infant in order to give him a better life, he having lived in the rural town of Guidonia. While he knows who she is, he doesn't know anything about her life as a prostitute. She also plans to start working running her own fruit stand in the market, this all in an effort not only to lead a straight life, but so that Ettore can make something of himself, which she feels he couldn't do living in a rural town and she believing he only needing to use his brains as he has no formal training in any trade. While he starts to be immersed in a group of delinquents and as he starts to fall for twenty-four year old Bruna, a single mother known to have loose morals, Roma does whatever she needs to to get him on what she believes in the right track. But her past may come back to haunt her and her goals for Ettore, the probability of it happening increasing as Carmine comes back into her life.—Huggo
- After many years working in the streets of Roma, middle-aged whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper-class apartment and a fruit stand and retires from prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who was raised alone in the country, to live with her, and he becomes her pride and joy. However, the boy doesn't want to study or work, hangs with idle youths, and has a crush on a slut. Mamma Roma uses her best but limited efforts to straighten out Ettore and make him an honest man, but her past haunts her with tragic consequences.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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