Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
Humble fisherman Felice finds out his first wife faked her suicide in order to run away — and now wants her daughter back.
