A qualified surgeon is urgently called by a party in a small and inadequate private hospital to operate a man in critical condition because of a suicide attempt. This is the protagonist of the film, Benedict Parisi, whose first name seems prophetic of his story. In the waiting room is the companion Joan Micheli, pregnant with him, which—Benedict being alone in the world—gives consent to the risky operation. Her mother, Immaculate, however, hovers in the wings like a vulture, hoping he will die, because she aspires to marry Giovanna off to a lawyer friend of the family, as a better social and economic proposition.
Un homme est conduit en urgence à l’hôpital après avoir chuté du haut d’une falaise. Alors qu’il se trouve entre la vie et la mort, Benedetto Parisi se rappelle les moments clés de son existence, marquée par une éducation religieuse très stricte. Considéré comme un miraculé lorsque, le jour de sa première communion, il sortit indemne d’une chute spectaculaire, Benedetto serat-il à nouveau épargné par Dieu ?
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