A wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the responsibility of taking care of him and his family.
Commendatore Aristide Paoloni is strong and brave and prides himself on saving lives. His specialty is to avoid drowning suicides when people throw themselves into the Tiber from Rome's Milvian Bridge, and one day he saves the poor Gennaro. But will he regret this particular rescue?