The story of the old man he faces the possibility that he may lose his room and be turned into the streets to beg. He always paid his bills and this prospect horrifies him. The opening shot shows him joining a street demonstration in Rome as old man seek increase in their meager state pensions. Umberto marches in protest but it not joiner and indeed when the police disperse the crowd he is angry not at the cobs but at the organizers They didn’t even get a permit.