if you have trouble suspend disbelief then this isn not for you . consider represent a woman already in late middle age find a newborn baby in a cabbage patch and raise it a her own . think about it while she make no attempt to locate the mother and who may well be a confused teenager in need of medical treatment and seemingly no one from the italian equivalent of social service make any attempt to put the baby into care ( no social service . now i know it a fantasy ) . before you know it young toto be ten or so and his adoptive mother dy leave him to the orphanage from which he emerge a happy man who love everybody . in nothing flat he have not only give his suitcase to the man who steal it from him but organise the local homeless into bona fide shantytown resident and for an encore he lead them in a fight against capitalism in the shape of the businessman who buy the land on which the shantytown stand when oil be discover there . this want some swallowing without the subsequent amiracles begin with toto dead mother ( the old lady who raise him rather than his biological one ) appear to him and hand him a dove which double a a magic wand allow him to grant modest wish and a finale in which the hobo fly away to a good place locate presumably somewhere over the rainbow . on the other hand the film be up to here with charm and be easy to surrender to . on balance a small masterpiece .