An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.

An old woman finds a baby among the cabbages in her garden; she takes care of him and calls him Totò. When she dies, he is sent to an orphanage, which he leaves as a teenager. When Totò goes out in the world, he expects everyone to be open-hearted as himself, but they aren't. Without belongings or a place to live, he soon turns up among other homeless people, living scattered in boxes and cement pipes on a vast, barren field outside Milan. With his energy and enthusiasm, Totò quickly engages the outcasts in transforming the place into a small shanty town. The eccentric misfits are turned into a warm-hearted community. But when the wealthy Mr. Mobbi buys the land, he tries to get rid of them.—Maths Jesperson {[email protected]}

Next to her humble homestead, in the middle of her small cabbage patch, tender-hearted elderly woman Lolotta discovers Totò, an abandoned baby, and offers him shelter and love. But years later she dies and Totò is sent to an orphanage, only to return a sparkling optimist who refuses to be discouraged by the ways of the world. With such precious qualities, Totò spreads sunshine and gives hope to a gloomy hobo camp, not knowing that underneath the community's feet lies a great secret that threatens their bright future. Can a miracle in Milan save the penniless?—Nick Riganas

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the boy, Toto, and when she dies he enters an orphanage. He leaves it years later 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.—Will Gilbert