White Sister (1972)

Francesca Modigliani: Lucia

Quotes 

• Lucia : The police can't help me. They don't care about what happens to us. Nobody cares about us. We're just trash that moved up from the south. That's all we are to them.

• Suor Germana : You mustn't give up, Lucia. Don't you see that?

  Lucia : No, I don't see. Being a nun, you can't possibly know what it's like for anyone to be cut off from a normal way of life.

  Suor Germana : I do, Lucia. It's going to turn out all right. If you believe it will. Do you?

  Lucia : No.

• Lucia : We're from Calabria. Me and Antonio. We came up north together. We both found work right away. And we were going to get married, almost like in a dream. Everything was fine. Then we lost our jobs. The economy was bad, they said. So they started firing people. The southerners first, naturally. He took it hard. He just sat all day at home. Then one day, a friend - came and offered him a way to make easy money. I knew how he'd end up. So I told him that I'd make money for him.

  Suor Germana : He let you?

  Lucia : Oh, not right away. He nearly killed me when I first mentioned it. But before long, he lost his scruples.