When Vincenzo Fragasso sets out to walk home from the La Scala opera house one cold January night in 1870, the violinist has no idea he'll soon be in America. After events tie him to the deaths of two Austrians, however, he and his young wife Almira are forced to flee Italy forever.
Years later, Vincenzo's son, Peter, travels from Rhode Island to Colorado to study gold and silver mining at the School of Mines. En route, Peter meets and falls for the beautiful Abby Taylor-running afoul of her bigoted, anti-Catholic mother, Anne.
When Peter and Abby's long-distance...
When Vincenzo Fragasso sets out to walk home from the La Scala opera house one cold January night in 1870, the violinist has no idea he'll soon be ...