The film was directed by Angelo Jacono. The film revisits the famous song composed by E. A. Mario was in the year 1928. The film was filmed by Angelo Jacono, best known as the producer, and is in the strand of rippalacrime films that were so successful in Italy. The genre was inaugurated by The last spring snow of Raimondo Del Balzo in 1973. In these films a good and sensitive child, abandoned or neglected by his parents, tragically faces death by accident or illness, finding only in this way, late in his agony, the affection of which he had been deprived. In one of the rare versions to the female of history, the littleLeslie D'Olive is the innocent victim in a tragic role.