For the first time, Enza and Chiro met when they were still children, under very tragic circumstances, against the backdrop of majestic Italian Alps. Chiro is a half-orphan living at a women’s monastery, and Enza is the eldest daughter in a large and very poor family. They don’t complain about fate and are ready for labors and hardships—above all, they must not be separated from loved ones and from those wonderful mountains. But fate decides otherwise: as children, both are forced to leave their homeland and cross the ocean to the incomprehensible and frightening America.
That’s how their life story begins—full of utterly unexpected twists, temptations, hardships, happy moments, friendship, and great love. They will have to meet and part a few more times before they understand that destiny arranges their meetings for a reason. And if there is something in life that can overcome longing for their native Italy, it is love.
“ The Shoemaker’s Wife” is an epic love story that stretches across two continents and two world wars, through the glitter and poverty of New York and the peaceful beauty of Italy, through long separations and brief encounters.