Pasquale Tartaro

파시즘이 팽배한 1935년의 이탈리아를 배경으로, 남부 에볼리 근처의 작은 마을에 의사로 보내진 카를로 레비의 눈을 통해 현지 농부들이 고립과 가난 속에서 질병과 싸우며 살아가는 참상을 묘사한 작품. -daum 영화

Vito Polara is ambitious and wants to get as more power and money as possible. He decides to leave the cigarette smuggling and try to get the total control of the regional fruit and vegetable distribution considered more profitable. He looks for the help of a rural crime Boss.

Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of six Napolitean episodes : a clown exploited by a gangster ; an inconstant pizza seller (Sofia) loosing her husband's ring ; the funeral of a dead child ; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a kid ; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute ; the "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller".