The young lion tamer Tairo is unhappy with his life. He uses the loss of his good luck charm as an excuse to travel across Italy looking for Arthur Robin, a former Mr Universe, who gave it to him a long time ago. Mister Universo is a movie guided by rational and irrational forces.
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