In a time of war, family is everything...

From their arranged marriage through the births of their six beautiful daughters, Franco and Anna Gennusa's love carried them all through the struggles of World War II. German soldiers, hiding a fleeing family, aiding the Italian Resistance in Sicily, and protecting their older daughters from the dangers and devastation of war, could not shake their love and devotion.

Then Franco discovers that another child would threaten Anna's life, and his actions and rage change their family's lives forever...