Vito Annichiarico

Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom.

A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by Enrico Bottini.

The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.

A localização: Roma ocupada pelos nazistas. Como Roma é classificada como uma cidade aberta, a maioria dos romanos pode passear pelas ruas sem medo de a cidade ser bombardeado ou eles serem mortos no processo. Mas a vida para os romanos ainda é difícil com a ocupação nazista. Há um toque de recolher, alimentos básicos são racionados, e os nazistas ainda estão procurando aqueles que trabalham para a resistência e fazem qualquer coisa para reprimir os que estão na resistência e ninguém dá nenhuma ajuda aos partisans.