Fellini goes back to ideas he first looked at in La strada (1954) and makes a story about the whispers of the soul that only mad people and wanderers can hear. Ivo Salvini (Benigni), a fake well inspector, and Gonnella (Villaggio), a former prefect, are an odd couple. They wander through the Emilia-Romagna countryside where Fellini grew up as a child and find a dystopia full of commercials, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.
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Fellini goes back to ideas he first looked at in La strada (1954) and makes a story about the whispers of the soul that only mad people and wanderers can hear. Ivo Salvini (Benigni), a fake well inspector, and Gonnella (Villaggio), a former prefect, are an odd couple. They wander through the Emilia-Romagna countryside where Fellini grew up as a child and find a dystopia full of commercials, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.
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