The film depicts the late nineteenth century , several farming families living in poverty and hardsh...
The film depicts the late nineteenth century , several farming families living in poverty and hardship in rural areas of northern Italy, bit by bit, a lot of little story . One section describes a sharecropper 's son to go to school , when the local people , reading is a very easy thing , the parents do not know the meaning and benefits of education , are reluctant to send their children to go to school , the priest more than times to advise parents just to do so . These families also need to redouble live frugally in their daily lives to for these kids reading . The child of a tenant farmer in the back of the reading , bad shoes , the father cut down a tree the night made one pair of wooden shoes . Landlord know , put this family tenant evicted .