In 18th century in the wake of its success a company of Italian comedians arrives at the Peruvian court. Camilla (Anna Magnani), the leading lady, is disputed by a torero, a night and viceroy who pushes to the point of giving her a golden carriage. The local aristocracy disapprove of Camilla and the rest of the company's scandalous disarray. Disappointed the actress resolves to commit herself to her true passion: acting. Renoir's first European work after his American period and the Indian episode The River (1951), it was produced by Francesco Alliata's Panaria Film, it had been originally commissioned to Luchino Visconti
