Based on the novel Toto il buono by Cesare Zavattini.
Özet:
The story follows Toto, a newborn discovered in a cabbage patch by an elderly woman. Made homeless as an adult he ends up in a shantytown, inspiring the other homeless to build new homes from scraps of wood and metal. When a rich reserve of oil is discovered beneath their town, a greedy landowner, Mobbi, tries to force Toto and his friends off the land. But when all looks lost he receives some magical help from the heavens above... Illustrating the frustration of innocence in the face of life's harsh realities, this is another awar-winning masterpiece from De Sica and is one of the waterched films of the Italian cinema renaissance.