Taxicab driver Loren's son, Ponti (her real-life son in his film debut), is nearly blind. To restore his failing vision, an expensive operation is required. His doting mother, doggedly determined that her son shall have the surgery, decides to try a form of extortion. She rents a trailer
and, with Ponti, heads north, attempting to trace three of her one-time lovers, hoping to persuade each in turn that he is the boy's father so that they will all contribute cash to restore Ponti's eyesight. In Naples, they fail to find one of the three, an American helicopter pilot (Travanti, star
of TV's "Hill Street Blues") who has been reassigned. In Rome, they are more fortunat...
Released:
1985
Rated:
NR
Length:
83 mins