Captive Down Under

Captive Down Under is the story of Rosario Roccafiorita a lieutenant in the Italian army during WWII who was captured in North Africa at the beginning of 1941 and sent to Australia as a prisoner of war.After September 1943 when Italy surrenders to the Allies Rosario like thousands of other Italian prisoners is sent to work on a farm. There he finds in the farmer's daughter the love of his life.When he is forcibly repatriated to Italy after five and a half dramatic years of captivity Rosario finds a country in ruins. All he can think of is returning to Australia and to his Clare.