A chance encounter on a canal bridge results in a series of twilight rendezvous between a lonely city transplant and a sheltered woman haunted by a lover's promise.

Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1957. Special features: collection of interviews from 2003 featuring screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, film critics Laura Delli Colli and Lino Micciche, cinematographer Rotunno, and costume designer Piero Tosi; new 115-minute recorded reading of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short story, downloadable as an MP3 file; rare screen-test footage of Marcello Mastroianni and Maria Schell; a new essay by film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith; original theatrical trailer.