L'interrogatorio

A young peasant Aldo Contini come to Rome in search of a job. In order to observe two women who are sunbathing on a terrace he climbs up to a roof not knowing that he is on the roof of a palace in which has been killed a little girl. Forced to escape on his own from the moment in which someone discovers the corpse he is mistaken for the assassin and only the providential participation of a policeman succeeds in saving him from the furious vengeance of an angry mob. In possession of some clues he is subjected to a brutal interrogation by the police during which Aldo after having uselessly protested his innocence of the crime ends up confessing to the crime in front of the enquirers.