Edmondo De Amicis

A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

Each month a school teacher narrates a new story to his students, with a moral in each of them.

When his mother falls gravely ill after emigrating to Argentina, young Marco leaves Italy behind on a desperate quest to find her. Alone in a vast, unpredictable continent with no money and only his determination to guide him, he sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to bring his family back together. Based on the timeless 1886 classic, this epic adventure captures the extraordinary lengths a child will go to for love.

A young Italian boy named Marco is devastated when his mother must leave home to work in Argentina to pay off the family debt. She sends the family letters, but soon the messages stop coming, which worries Marco and sets him off on an epic quest to find her.

A young woman arrives in her school where she must teach for the first time. Her task consists in teaching a class of adults to read and write. All her students are male, ranging from boys to old men, and they are rather rowdy and difficult. All the more as a young hooligan dares write her on a test paper that he loves her. Feeling harassed by the young man, she is defended by other students. But she more or less feels the young bad boy's love is true and when this one is lying on his dying bed, after being stabbed by the other students, she solaces him by kissing him tenderly.

Four stories with teenagers as the protagonists: Young Blood - The Sardinian Drummer - The Little Look-out - The Nurse of the Father (Sangue romagnolo - Il tamburino sardo - La piccola vedetta lombarda - L'infermiere di Tata)