An unskilled worker in a drab northern Italian industrial city of the 1950s and 1960s, Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing to come a little closer to the unspoiled world of his imagining.

• 作为20世纪五六十年代意大利北部一个乏味的工业城市的低级工人，马可瓦多善于发现自然美，并热切的渴望更靠近他想象中未受到破坏的世界。