In the rugged Sicilian countryside in 1913, weather-beaten farmers were barely making ends meet on the land they had cultivated for generations. One day, their cookie-cutter lives were shattered, a stranger from the American continent spread the legends of the New World in the village: great fortune and good luck, potatoes as big as train cars, and as long as canoes Carrots and a tree full of gold coins on its branches. The stranger's job was to accompany families who had emigrated and worked happily on the American continent on the other side of the sea.
A Sicilian peasant family, the Mancusos, decided to pursue this dream associated with a new beginning. Over the objections of their godmother, they packed their entire family and all their belongings, turned and left their homeland. They took a cart to the port and a boat across the ocean to Ellis Island in New York
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