Lo scugnizzo (1979)

Gennarino is a Neapolitan orphan boy. He lives with Angela his adoptive mother, a former famous singer now fallen in the dust. She has a serious illness, and they together try to get the money necessary to the right care by singing around. But one day Angela is obliged by ill to stop her activity and Gennarino decides to join a pilferers gang. He befriend with another boy Mario. When Mario dies, Gennarino finish into the jail. Here he set up a net of wrong friendships that anyway help him in some way to get the necessary money to recover Angela. But tragedy aren't over.