The film was censored by the Italian government, and its only known copy was subsequently looted by German soldiers in 1944 and has not resurfaced.

The film follows Giovanni, a working-class orphan living in Rome, who realizes that his criminal lifestyle is wrong and becomes a devout fascist.

[3] The story was written by Nino D'Aroma [it] and Sandro De Feo [it], the music was composed by Luigi Colacicchi [it], and the cinematography was done by Domenico Scala and Massimo Terzano.

[3] Filming by Cines-Pittaluga occurred in the "poorer sections" of Rome[2] and the intended distributor was Società Anonima Stefano Pittaluga (SASP).

[4][5] The Italian censorship commission, as well as Benito Mussolini himself, objected to the film's portrayal of the poorer sections of Rome, which the government had claimed no longer existed, and that a "model fascist" could arise from a "criminal gang of hooligans".