Adriana is a very attractive Roman Young girl, that poses nude for diferent painters (mediocre ones) to make money for a living. There are not many Jobs under Mussollini’s government, and the money she earns showing her body is not enought to maintain her mother and hersellf. Driven by her mother’s greed and a series of many other circumnstances Adriana Little by Little turns into a prostitute. In the plot is involved a Young college student who’s in love with the protagonist, as well as a repulsive oficial of the secret politice and a tough criminal who claims to be Adriana’s body owner. La Romana is a world’s literature classic.