Two anarchistic brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their Catholic upbringing. Bandiera and Rabbino were children when they pushed their drunk of a father out of a window for killing their pet sheep. When a girl is raped by her father, she is brought by young "rescuers" to the home of the two brothers who then watch their friends take advantage of her sexually. The brothers take her in, and the three live happy and celibate if not uneventful lives until the brother's are sent to jail for stealing.

Laurent Terzieff
as Bandiera

Franco Citti
as Rabbino

Anita Sanders
as Monica

Ninetto Davoli
as Fiorino

Lamberto Maggiorani
as Padre di Monica

Celestino Compagnoni
as Padre di Bandiera e Rabbino

Lily Tirinnanzi
as madre di Bandiera e Rabbino

Settimio Picone
as Baffo

Gianni Pulone
as Sacerdote

Alberto del Prete
as Aria