Due giovanissimi sciuscià (da "shoe-shine", lustrare scarpe) napoletani sognano di comperare un cavallo bianco tutto per loro e, per averlo, s'invischiano in un "lavoretto" per adulti che li porta in un carcere minorile.

An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.

A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.

A film about a life cycle of a shoe. From being bought and worn and then torn by a very rich man to a very different life with a very poor man and it keeps going on as the shoe seemingly gains much experience with the "human life"