Feverish Zest

<p>A knock on her apartment door pulls Gemma Ricordi away from an uncooperative batch of ragù. Standing on her doormat is a young girl unable or unwilling to speak clutching a note from Gemma's estranged sister. <em>This is my daughter Grace. Look after her as if she were your own.</em></p><p>Two days later another castaway comes knocking on the Ricordis' door: Felice Gemma's brother-in-law freshly out of a job after an academic scandal cost him his professorship.</p><p>This double exile is the opening act in a decade-long saga capturing the conflicts and ambitions of the Ricordis. A family of cooks musicians and garbage collectors looking for a way out of the placid snide life of Milan's periphery. Getting suspended dumped and arrested. Carving their paths to glory through each other's feelings.</p>