Bicycle thieves is a Italian film which was made in 1948 Directed by De Sica and . After the end of World War 2 Antonio Ricci who was unemployed and is struggling to support his family is given a job hanging up posters around the war torn of Italy Rome He was happy at that time because he was given a chance to have a job and support his family. His wife, Maria had to sell the family 's bed linens so Ricci bike could be reclaimed and he could use it. The bike was gotten from a pawnshop so he could take the job. But, tragedy occurs when his bike that he would use for transportation to get to his job is stolen on his first day at work, and his new job is condemned and he loses the only way he can maintain this job and be able to provide for his family unless he can find out who the thief is and regain his bike so he will not get fired from his newly job that he got. So he had to drop what he was working on at that time to go after the person who has stolen his bike and he goes on a journey throughout the city of Rome to find his bike back.

As he 's looking for his Bike He has his young son Bruno with him which makes it that much more humiliating when it becomes nearly insurmountable for him to find it anywhere, whether he 's analyzing the marketplace or tracking down the robber. He becomes more agitated as the day carries on, because he needs the bike, in order to keep his job, and the world around him appears to be further concerned with revolt and propaganda than the real