It was a commercial success, being the second most popular film at the box office that year.

[2] In an post-war period Italy, the problem for every citizen is to find a comfortable place to live.

Beniamino Lomacchio (Totò) is one of the many people without a home and, together with his family, he has been living in a school.

Beniamino is a poor clerk and does not know what to do; he just hopes he'll find a comfortable apartment with a landlord who doesn't ask for too much rent.

One day, however, Beniamino finds a place to move into: a cemetery caretaker's house.