Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.

• DirectorVittorio De Sica
• Release8 February 1951
• Genre
  Comedy / Fantasy
• Duration1h 37m
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  7.3
  239 reviews
• Productions

  Produzioni De Sica, ENIC