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.
as La vecchia Lolotta
as Totò
as Rappi
as Mobbi
as Edvige
as Marta, la signora altezzosa
as La statua che prende vita
as L'innamorata infelice
as Il sergente delle guardie
as Alfredo
as Gaetano
as L'atleta
as Il comandante in secondo
as Il comandante in primo
as Totò a 11 anni (uncredited)
