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.
Emma Gramatica
as La vecchia Lolotta
Francesco Golisano
as Totò
Paolo Stoppa
as Rappi
Guglielmo Barnabò
as Mobbi
Brunella Bovo
as Edvige
Anna Carena
as Marta, la signora altezzosa
Alba Arnova
as La statua che prende vita
Flora Cambi
as L'innamorata infelice
Virgilio Riento
as Il sergente delle guardie
Arturo Bragaglia
as Alfredo
Erminio Spalla
as Gaetano
Riccardo Bertazzolo
as L'atleta
