There's Still Tomorrow 2025

In post-war Rome, in May 1946, Allied military troops roam the streets in Jeeps. The city is experiencing poverty and fueled by the institutional referendum and the election of the Constituent Assembly on June 2 and 3.

A woman, Delia, is the wife of the abusive Ivano and mother of three children, including the teenage Marcella. Between domestic engagements she nurses her sullen father-in-law Ottorino and does sewing and repairs for various city stores, as well as laundry for the wealthy. The woman’s friends include Nino, a car mechanic who loves her; Marisa, a market greengrocer and witty optimist; and William, an African American soldier who wants to help her.

Delia’s life is happily disrupted by Marcella’s engagement to Giulio Moretti, the young scion of a well-to-do family who owe their prosperity to their local ice-cream parlor. Ivano is aware of the pleasant financial gain a marriage between the two could bring. After a Sunday lunch Delia prepared for her future in-laws (and the bossy behaviour of Giulio) she realizes, that her daughter would be headed for a marriage similar to hers, with regular physical abuse and humiliation. With William’s help, she blows up her future son-in-law’s bar establishment so that his parents will see their wealth disappear and leave town. Marcella is devastated, but Delia knows she has done the right thing: she has decided to fight back in the face of her inferior condition thanks to the encouragement the arrival in the mail of her first voter’s card represented. Delia had saved 8000 Lire from her work, hidden from her grasping husband, originally intended to buy a wedding dress for Marcella. Instead, the money will go to finance her daughter’s education.

On June 2, when the time comes to vote between the monarchy and the republic and to elect the Constituent Assembly, Delia wants to participate and looks for an excuse to escape her husband-master, but the sudden death of her father-in-law complicates her life as she sees her house filled with relatives and friends. This does not prevent her from going to the polls the next day, her first experience of this alongside many other Italian women. Delia unknowingly loses her card in her house before heading to the polls - it is found first by Ivano and then by Marcella, both of whom pursue Delia. Marcella gives the document to Delia and she is able to vote.