Setting — 1952 & 1953 — post WWII — countryside Montorio nei Frentani, Province of Campobasso, Molise region, and elsewhere in Italy The characters & events of this story are fictional.
A nun is violated. Twelve years later, a young Roma girl is also raped. Both violations result in pregnancies. The nun, twin boys; the young girl, a boy — Manfri. The villain in both cases is the same man — a priest, years later to be appointed Archbishop of Milan. We follow both victims over the next several decades. Ultimately, the young Roma girl takes her revenge.
