The Girl from Millelire Street

Young Betty Pellegrino Orla Conforti is a strongminded 13yearold left on her own to deal with life in the poorer districts of an industrialized Turin Street life alternates with bouts in the reformatory and Bettys prospects for a decent life seem fairly dim in spite of her consistently ready wit and ability to take whatever life hands out Then she meets a social worker willing to add Betty to her already heavy case load Maybe there is some hope after all as two against the world double Bettys odds