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The couple Franz and Maria are newly in love, but then he has to join the army and she goes on leave to Italy, from which she returns to the village in Styria unintentionally pregnant.
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In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach Celestina’s sister, who emigrated to America several years earlier. The two children join the many Italian emigrants seeking a new life in America and arrive in an unknown metropolis, which, after several misadventures, they will learn to call home.

When Ainara announces that she wants to become a nun, chaos arises in her family.