Piero Maccarinelli

Piero Maccarinelli directs the student actors of the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in a play by Luigi Sturzo performed in 1900, which sheds light on the murky and persistent link between politics and crime.

Andreas Kartak, a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris, is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he can afford to. Kartak is determined to pay back his debt but circumstances, and his alcoholism, forever intervene.