Mamma Roma

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.