 In Castro dei Volsci, a monument called the "Mamma Ciociara" now stands to remember all the mothers who tried in vain to defend themselves and their daughters.The 1957 novel "Two Women" by Alberto Moravia references the Marocchinate; in it a mother and her daughter, trying to escape the fighting, are raped by Goumiers in an abandoned church.The novel was made into a movie, "Two Women", directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Sophia Loren, for which Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress.