A richly told wartime love story, inspired by a true World War II act of optimismEmilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a northern Scottish island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como, in Italy. Feeling increasingly frustrated with his situation, Emilio is inspired by the idea of building a chapel on the barren island. The prisoners band together to create an extraordinary building out of little more than salvaged odds and...
A richly told wartime love story, inspired by a true World War II act of optimismEmilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But...