is a 1945 Italian comedy drama film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Anna Magnani, Nino Besozzi and Marisa Vernati.

It was released in the wake Magnani's success in Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City.

It makes reference to the thriving black market in postwar Italy and was followed by a loose sequel Peddlin' in Society (1946) which focused on a similar theme.

Meanwhile, Giovanni becomes involved in fake currency smuggling, bringing the family increased prosperity, until he is caught and sent briefly to prison.

The boy's father than turns up, he had gone missing rather than be killed in the bombing, and offers Giovanni an honest job.