In the film The Bicycle Thieves by Vittorio de Sica, Antonio Ricci (by Lamberto Maggiorani) is a poor man who is excited when he is at last offered a job: delivering and putting up movie posters.
But he needs his own bicycle, which he has pawned away earlier, so his wife Maria (Lianella Carelli) pawns the family's entire stock of bed linen to redeem the bicycle he had already hocked.
On his first day at work, while putting up posters, his bike got stolen, leaving him helpless on the street. Being at the desperate state, he walks through the streets of Rome with his little boy Bruno (Enzo Staiola) to get his bike back, pleading and accusing and uncovering scenes of poverty similar to theirs wherever they go.
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