No sooner is Richard given permission to start renovations, then a young woman arrives from out of nowhere, a small boy in tow. What better than a country life in Tuscany to exorcise his ghosts? Soon after taking ownership, as he is digging a vegetable patch, he comes across a woman’s remains, that the carabiniere identify as Fosca Santino. Arriving in Corbello, Richard, a shy, gentle man, avoids the limelight of the congratulatory citizens and doesn’t plan on sticking around, but a friend shows him the old tobacco tower that’s for sale, and he’s instantly smitten. He is constantly dogged by the needless violence of his war days, taunted by nightmares, and unable to move forward with his life, so he hops on his ex-military M20 motorcycle, a small knapsack in the sidecar, and heads for Tuscany. Although a pacifist, he had worked with the FAU (Friends’ Ambulance Unit) Quakers at a makeshift hospital during the war. In 1947, war hero Richard Moorhead receives an invitation to attend a community celebration in Corbello, Tuscany.
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