A troubled love between Camillo, psychosomatically ill, and Vittoria, a French girl who is about to marry another. Camillo is assisted by his brother Leone whose only purpose in his life is to look after him and has the company of a friend he met on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, Orlando, who is truly paralyzed. The two friends, very different from each other, are very close until the situation becomes complicated: Camillo, hoping for a rapprochement with Vittoria, gets well and without his friend's knowledge starts walking again, while Orlando unexpectedly falls in love too. of the girl. Camillo ends up in prison where he remains paralyzed again for two years, Vittoria leaves Italy for Paris. Camillo gets out of prison thanks to the help of his friend Orlando, became a major player in the fascist party. Finally free and definitively cured, the young man joins Vittoria in Paris. Love has healed and saved.