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　　Maurizio is a stubborn boy who grows up near the fiumara, where people throw away whatever they no longer need. This open-air dump becomes his playground, where among wrecked cars and other treasures large and small, he begins to dream of playing in the town band. Mamma Rosa looks on his musical aspirations as a childish whim, a luxury that the family cannot afford. And so, between the good advice by Mosè the donkey and the pranks by chicken N’Giulina, Maurizio is faced with a growing series of adventures and comes to the realization that, if his dream is to come true, he must be determined to see it through right to the end.

　　深山里某个小镇上，人们过着安静平淡知足的日子。对于自己的家乡，高中女生Machi（夏莲）虽然再熟悉不过，却总觉得仍有许多未知之谜等着她去发掘。某天，Machi和两个女友憧憬未来，玩起故事接龙游戏，在她们天马行空地幻想未来时，镇里的大人们开始回想有关过去被埋葬的树木的故事。
　　暴风雨将小镇“袭击”，大人们记忆中被埋葬的巨大树木暴露出来，“梦幻森林”的入口被打开，Machi和女友编写的未来同过去有了联系，一切变得似真又似幻，如梦又如烟。

　　故事发生在第二次世界大战期间，为了躲避战火，坚强的母亲塞西拉（索菲娅·罗兰 Sophia Loren 饰）带着13岁的女儿罗塞塔（艾伦诺拉·布朗 Eleonora Brown 饰）离开了他们的故乡罗马，暂时来到地处偏远的小镇西赛罗定居。在这里，塞西拉结识了准备成为医生的小伙子米凯尔（让-保罗·贝尔蒙多 Jean Paul Belmondo 饰）。
　　米凯尔是一个生性浪漫的男人，热爱文学，他教罗塞塔识字读诗，久而久之，罗塞塔爱上了他，可是很显然，米凯尔的目光始终锁定在塞西拉的身上。为了帮助塞西拉搞到食物填饱肚子，米凯尔来到了父亲的朋友家，哪知道在那里遇见了一个德国军官，德国军官强烈谴责米凯尔不上战场的行为，并且打算强行把他带走。