Synopsis:

Camillo,a barber in a small town in the south,is suffering from a psychosomatic illness,his lower limbs are paralyzed,without any reason.It all began when Camillo and Vittoria broken off their engagement.We are in the 1920's and the case is new and very interesting.The whole town is involved,but mostly Leone,Camillo's half-brother,who hasalways lovingly cared for him at home,finally finding a purpose to his failed existence.Leo does not want his brother to get better.They go on a pilgrimage to lourdes,to no avail but on the train Camillo meets Orlando,a paralyzed young man who became his best friend.The two are very different from each other:Orlando writes poetry ,is shy and gentle,while Camillo is a liar,exuberant and talkative,and invents specialties to treat diseases as diverse from baldness to rheumatic pains.Victoria is now engaged to a young,elegant and rich man and her family is thrilled,but she leaves him because,without admitting it,she is still in love with Camillo.As soon as camillo finds out he starts walking perfectly.Meanwhile,Orlando meets Victoria and falls in love with her even though the girl only feels friendship for him.Camillo one day makes a joking comment about the "Duce",that a friend of Victoria reports to the police and believed to be a dangerous subversive,the young ma is imprisoned.Believing that Victoria and orlando love each other and live together in Paris,his legs becomes paralyzed again.When Orlando,now a fascist major,reduces Camillo's sentence,Camillo,goes striaght to Paris,where he manages to find Victoria.love is healing.