Chronicling the last year of the life of Modigliani, an Italian painter living in abject poverty in Paris who falls in love with Jeanne, a girl from a wealthy family whose parents do not approve of him.
Carlo Lizzani spent ten months as a filmmaker and researcher in China, to make the first feature-length documentary film by a Western director in a nation that at the time was considered almost like a fairy-tale land by Westerners.
Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help.
