“Federico Fellini manages to accomplish with film what mostly abstract painters do – namely, to communicate emotion without ever saying or showing anything in a direct manner, without ever explaining anything, just by a sort of sheer magic.”
—David Lynch

When a young man brings his new bride to Rome to meet his family at the Vatican—and be blessed by the Pope—the woman runs away in search of The White Sheik, hero of a popular fumetti (photo comic book) series. Co-written by Michelangelo Antonioni and featuring Nino Rota’s first of many Fellini scores.