Giacomo Scarpelli

Unemployed Vincenzo lives on his mother's small pension, his neighbor Bartoloni suffers under the rule of his despotic wife. One night Bartoloni suggests to Vincenzo he could murder Mrs Bartoloni for 30 million lire, but things don't go as planned...

The life of Saint Francis, a saint who was born rich, in the medieval Tuscany, and abandoned all his goods to live closer to the population and is nowadays remembered as the saint protector of Italy.