This drama is an example of Italian neorealist filmmaking from noted director Roberto Rossellini that was produced in Hollywood and may therefore be more accessible to American artists than other offerings. It stars Ingrid Bergman as Lithuanian war-refugee Karin, who marries Italian fisherman, Antonio, so she can get out of a hellish internment camp. He takes his new bride back to his native island of Stromboli. Despite her efforts to fit in, the locals reject her and soon she comes to regard the island as a bigger prison than the one she just left.