The story begins shortly before the end of World War II, in February 1945: Vito, then fighting in Sicily with the American army, obtains a furlough and returns home to Empire Bay, United States ...
Vito Scaletta is a Sicilian immigrant who arrived in America as a child, with his sister Francesca and his parents. His mother was a housewife and his father, Antonio Scaletta, worked on the docks,..