Shortly before the onset of hostilities in Europe in 1939, the
celebrated Italian conductor, Maestro Marcantonio Omodei, departs
Rome to accept a position with New York's Metropolitan Opera
Company under Toscanini. His wife, Anita, plans to join him after
the arrival of their precious baby.
Christened Marcus Aurelius, the boy is born amidst the first
salvos of the European war. Separated from his family for the
duration of hostilities, the Maestro is forced, enemy alien status
notwithstanding, to endure the mild discomforts of wartime New York
City, while mother and child are left to face an uncertain future.
Reconciled to a long separation from the one true love of her life,
Anita manages the resulting trials with grit and humor. The
experience stirs her to reassess her ancestral values, a process
that dramatically transforms not only her world, but also her very
being. Through it all, Anita is abetted by two childhood friends:
Adriana, a blasphemous and fiercely cynical spinster, and a worldly
nun named Eugenia.
Wrenched from the fringes of her relatively humdrum purgatory,
Anita is swept into the vortex of a developing tempest and the
deceptive calm that follows its conclusion.
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