During the Civil War, corporal MacDonald from the Cavalry Regiment, is entrusted with a large shipment of gold. Along with the men accompanying him, Mac Donald decides to keep the cargo, and hides it for later rescue. He is the only one who knows where it is buried, but is killed in a skirmish. Now, Lieutenant Pollock will have the mission to find out where he hid the gold

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.