Some years later, he overhears a woman singing the very tune Gelsomina often played. He learns that the woman's father had found Gelsomina on the beach and kindly taken her in. However, she had wasted away and died.

La strada, film score by Italian composer Nino Rota for the 1954 film of the same name by Federico Fellini. Rota's music was one of the relatively rare European film scores to attract wide attention in the United States as well.