A remote village in Italy is enslaved by the marquise, with no transportation, no schools, and a group of people living out of modern civilization.
Among them was a young boy named Lazaro, a "fool" with clear and simple eyes who was almost responsive to every request. The Marquis's son used his loyalty to friendship to direct a fake kidnapping with him in order to defraud the Marquise of money.
Because of the fever, Lazaro blamed himself for not going to the appointment. After waking up, he immediately went to find the son of the marquis. Unexpectedly, he slipped into the cliff and died. The village began to be discovered by the outside world, people were brought to live in the city, and they all left.
The film's twist is revived in Lazaro, decades later, and the director plays with the surreal. He began to go into the city to find the son of the marquis, for his own failure to show up on time. He saw the people in the village again, living near the railway, living hard by begging, stealing, and defrauding. To them, modern civilization seems to be another slave owner.
Lazaro found the earl's son, apologized to him, explained that he didn't come to the appointment because he had a fever, and also learned that the earl's son was poor because of bank debts.
So he went to the bank counter and asked them to return the money to the earl's son, only to be mistaken for a robbery at gunpoint, beaten by a group of modern civilized people who turned into thugs, he died again, and the movie ended.
Culture, material, environment, people, all things are changing, but Lazaro, the kind and innocent, remains the same
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