Calabria with Love

<p>In 1927 in a town deep within the Calabrian mountains an oppressed and isolated family lives under the tyranny of a violent baron who wantsto subdue and recruit the brothers Pietro and Ferruccio by any means possible. When the brothers reject his offer the enraged baron exacts his revenge on the family in a brutal attack-on their children. Heattempts to kill Ferruccio's toddler son Nicola and forcefully adopts Pietro's now-orphaned four-year-old niece Carmen. As astute as he is dangerous Pietro-now calling himself Zione-insinuates himself into the baron's inner circle waiting for the perfect moment to exact his own revenge.</p><p>Years pass and the world is at war. Ferruccio returns from the horrors of the Russian Front with a frostbitten foot only to find there are battles to be won at home as well. Nicola now a man is engaged to Carmen who carries his child. But the baron forbids his adopted daughter to marry. Under threat of death Ferruccio flees to Miami. There he seeksprotection and help from a local boss. Back in Italy Carmen gives birth to their child before joining Nicola in Florida in the hopes of starting a new life in the New World. Together they open an Italianrestaurant and try to find happiness so far from home.</p><p>They will never forget the Great Sila the <i>viddanedda</i> the beech forest the fountains and the procession of Santa Caterina. They willalways remember their lost Calabria with love.