The Walls of Malapaga

Pierre Arrignon (Jean Gabin) has killed his mistress in France and stowed away on a ship to Genoa, hoping to vanish before the police find him. Robbed the moment he lands, he is taken in by a kind girl, Cecchina (Vera Talchi), who brings him home to her mother, Marta (Isa Miranda). René Clément leaves the two of them in a borrowed room, Pierre watching her while the days he has left run short.