The film is worth watching mainly for the opening scene, which is impressive enough for anyone. Then follows a dreary dismal day of wanderings and finding a few girls on the way - one of them finally secures a job for him, and that's what he was after. His girl has given him a child, they are not married, so he simply had to get a job in one way or another. He gets mixed up with some awkward business, a truck loaded with black market oil worth some $100,000 is smashed and burnt, it's a Roman holiday without a holiday, and the risk is that many would find this a very boring film. Fortunately we are returned to the fabulous opening scene in the end, and there is something of a redemption or atonement in the end. It was not a happy day, but it was rewarding anyway.
Review of From a Roman Balcony
