Happy as Lazzaro

Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo) is so good-natured and helpful that he seems out of this world. He lives and works together with others on the isolated Inviolata estate. Its unscrupulous owner Marchesa de Luna (Nicoletta Braschi), known as the "Queen of Cigarettes", not only controls everyone on her estate, but also her imaginative son Tancredi (Luca Chikovani), who comes to Inviolata one day. When he asks Lazzaro for help in faking his own kidnapping, an ever closer friendship grows between the two young men. It outlasts time, as does the discovery of a major fraud that splits the community of Inviolata apart and leads Lazzaro to the distant city in search of Tancredi.