Italian comedy drama co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. The film follows Ivo Salvini (Roberto Benigni), a man recently released from a mental institution. Desperate to gain the affections of the alluring Aldina (Nadia Ottaviani), Ivo embarks on an epic adventure where he meets a number of different characters including a man who meditates on rooftops, an oboist who sleeps in a cemetery and a paranoid man obsessed with conspiracy theories.