A neorealist tale of a working-class couple exploiting a legal loophole to build a home overnight and evade eviction.
Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home.
Vittorio De Sica
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