Enza and Ciro meet as teenagers despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart in the Italian Alps. When Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America, leaving behind a bereft Enza. Unbeknownst to one another, they both build lives in America, until fate intervenes and reunites them, but not before Ciro has volunteered to serve in World War I.
