An old woman finds a baby in her cabbage patch and raises him. After her death, the boy grows up in an orphanage and later joins the homeless in post-war Milan, helping them build a shanty town. When they discover oil, he receives a magical dove from a vision of his adoptive mother that grants wishes.

• Produzioni De Sica
• ENIC
• Emma Gramatica
• Francesco Golisano
• Paolo Stoppa
• Guglielmo Barnabò
• Brunella Bovo
• Anna Carena
• Alba Arnova
• Flora Cambi