1968 film by Pietro Germi

A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.

The young Chiarina di Vallefiorita is forced by her father to marry an old, fat, rich man. With the help ot the monk of a nearby convent, she will escape her fate.

Teresa gets her first taste of crime — and its consequences — when, during World War II, she is nabbed for robbing an apartment. But being poor and perpetually starving, the pretty petty thief doesn't give up her quest for ill-gotten gains and soon turns to pick-pocketing. Despite her questionable thieving skills, the bumbling crook tries scheme after scheme, pilfering from strangers and dodging the law as she searches for a way to fund an adequate meal.