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An uneducated Italian peasant known as Tonio the mule is distrustful of the new government of the recently unified Italy. Tonio gets in trouble with the government when he ignores the new law requiring all children to go to school and prohibits his son from attending despite the fact that he wants to attend. After spending time in prison for breaking the law, Tonio learns the value of education and grows closer to his son.
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