Their love affair takes an unexpected turn as secrets are revealed, Lucia's family honour is tested, and her own reputation becomes the centre of a sizzling scandal. In order to win Lucia's hand, he must first win over her traditional family and make the proper offer of marriage. When a handsome stranger comes to the story and catches her eye, it is love at first sight for both of them. She juggles the roles of dutiful daughter and ambitious working girl perfectly. Though she is sought after as a potential wife by the best Italian families, Lucia stays her course and works hard, determined to have a career. Fuelled by the post-war boom, in which talented girls with ambition are encouraged to follow their dreams, Lucia becomes an apprentice for a made-to-wear clothing designer at a chic department store on Fifth Avenue.
Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a fine Italian immigrant family in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1950.
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