Vittorio De Sica

September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

Nicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of age, but he does not look favorably on her ...