Teresa, a young orphan, falls in love with Pietro, a health inspector. She will try to bring order to his reckless life full of debts and lies.

A comedy of errors in which the sweetly-incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend Loletta Prima (Magnani). After his creditors threaten to sell his belongings, he takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay his debts and ends up engaged to wealthy Lilli, daughter of a mattress tycoon, and chased after by orphan Teresa Venerdí, while trying to keep his life in order.—Benjamin Letzler <[email protected]>