

Enza is a beautiful and lively Sicilian teenager who is starting out in life, but due to her naivety, she always ends up getting into trouble. She has no parents, but lives with her aunt and uncle together with her older sister who acts as her mother and tries to put her on the right path, even ending up in prison for some time. Enza, keeping faith with her rebellious nature, falls in love with Sebastiano, with whom she has her first sexual relations, but for him she also goes as far as stealing. All men are the same.
Acting
Cruz at 19—feral, luminous, already a star before Hollywood knew.
Cinematography
Sicily as suffocating paradise: sun-drenched poverty that burns your eyes.

Director
Aurelio Grimaldi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Grimaldi was a controversial figure who later directed pornography; Cruz reportedly disowned this early work for years.
Part of a 1990s wave of 'young Italian cinema' exploring working-class female sexuality, often critically dismissed as exploitation.
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