- The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
- Caterina is a nun and has taken provisional vows for a month when she goes to a park when she meets a man who has found an abandoned baby boy and entrusts him to take him to the hospital. After doing so, Caterina begins to visit the little one and becomes attached to him so much that he tries to trace his mother through the sweater in which he was wrapped. This goes as far as Ernesto, forty-one, owner of a laundry left to him with his father's debts. Ernesto is unhappy with life and is all centered on his problems so as not to even remember the names of his collaborators. The boy's mother is perhaps Teresa, his former employee and Ernesto is perhaps the father. Thus began a crisis for Catherine as a nun and for Ernesto the awareness of not being the only unfortunate man on earth.—Baldinotto da Pistoia
- Caterina is a nun near Milan; soon she will take permanent vows and go to Latin America. She studies Spanish. Her certainty is upended when a jogger in a park hands her an abandoned infant, wrapped in a sweater. She takes the baby to hospital, then tries to find the child's mother, using a dry cleaning tag on the sweater. At the cleaners, she meets Ernesto, the owner, melancholy and middle-aged. The sweater is his, loaned months before to a former employee. Caterina persists, visiting the baby daily, checking in with Ernesto, and using his few clues to search for the mother; he goes with her sometimes, and as they form an odd friendship, her vocation comes into doubt. Is she of this world?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
- Caterina has been a nun for only a month when in the park she meets a man who found an abandoned newborn and entrusts her to take it to a hospital. After this event, Caterina begins to the baby and develops a fondness for it. She thinks she can find the mother by using the sweater in which the baby was wrapped when found. Then Ernesto, the 40-year-old proprietor of a laundry burdened with debts from his father, shows up, dissatisfied with life and its problems so much that he cannot remember the names of his partners. The mother of the child may be Teresa, his former employee - and Ernesto is perhaps the father. So begins for Caterina a crisis about her devotions and for Ernesto the consciousness that he is not the sole unfortunate man on earth.
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