It is the fall of 1942 and Giampaolo Stagno is starving.
But the vagaries of a world war and its aftermath drive them apart, thrusting the pair into an uncertain future..
Fate conspires to bring the couple together: their common heritage, shaped thousands of miles apart, forges a tentative bond between them.
Giampaolo and Eleanor know nothing of each other, though they share the customs and dialect of their island homeland, Sicily.
War has limited the possibilities for a thirty-year-old woman in Eleanor\'s corner of America, and she longs for another kind of life.
She works in a textile mill and returns Home each day to her mother and cousins and their close-knit Italian-American immigrant community.
A hundred miles from the camp, in Pennsylvania, Eleanor Fazzio is also starving-for a different life.
A soldier in the beleaguered Italian Army, the young Sicilian is captured and shipped from North Africa to the United States as a prisoner of war, assigned to a POW camp in New Jersey.
It is the fall of 1942 and Giampaolo Stagno is starving
