In postwar Rome, Antonio Ricci finally lands a job that could turn his family’s financial situation around. However, he needs his bicycle to get to work, and it is stolen on his very first day. Accompanied by his son Bruno, he tirelessly scours the city streets in an attempt to recover it. As the search grows increasingly desperate, father and son are confronted with poverty, injustice, and the moral dilemmas of a society marked by postwar hardships.
Considered a masterpiece of Italian neorealism, *Bicycle Thieves* is a deeply human portrait of dignity, solidarity, and the struggle for survival, and remains one of the most influential films in the history of cinema.