September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto…

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.