What Once Was Promised
When Domenic Bassini, just 16, leaves his small Italian village in 1914 seeking a better life in America, he quickly learns that the American Dream is anything but simple. A passionate affair at sea with Francesca, the wife of a man with Mafia ties, leads to heartbreak, leaving Domenic to arrive in Boston with only an orphaned stowaway, Ernesto Lentini, by his side.