Once upon a time an old woman discovers an infant inside her patch. She brings the child up and, when she dies, the boy, to to, enters an orphanage. Toto renders actively seeks work in postwar Milan, also the orphanage a young man. He organizes them to create a shanty town and ultimately eventually ends up with the displaced. The squatters find oil in the land and to-to sees a vision of the woman who gives him a magical dove that will grant him.