Le pratiche spagnole, austriache, feudali e le occupazioni francesi ostacolarono la formazione del popolo in italiani; solo 100 anni dopo l'unificazione della penisola, la famiglia Simonetti sarebbe uscita per diventare 'Straliani.
The North makes some economic progress; however, the South finds rule by a Northern King distasteful. Militarily trained men enmesh credos into ideology to spawn the ‘Mafia’. Mussolini ditches socialist ideology in preludes to Fascism. The Vogels become part of the Volksdeutsche colonisation of the Balkans. Giuseppe Simonetti transitions from a pastoral lessor to an owner. The Fascists’ ascendancy leads to renewed expansionary adventurism in North Africa. Giuseppe Attisani joins the road construction gangs in Abyssinia and buys the Pontana farm. The Simonetti emigration story splices back into 1966 Cobram. Joe’s generation is a kaleidoscope of teens’ growing pains in rural Cobram. Schooling is a must, but girls’ alluring distractions are unavoidable, leaving an immature skill set to be blindsided by brutal reality; choices narrow, but determination helps you break through. As ‘70s Italian politics struggles to maintain social balance and left-wing terrorism takes hold, Joe is absorbed by the evolving social and political hyperactivity as he seeks his place in the emerging middle class. Mitigating inherent recklessness remains a work in progress, where timidity is as much a threat to achievement. Who pulls the strings becomes a close-up, personal interest in the evolving nature of power in social structures. From the woman dialectic to the mind, heart and soul expanse, it becomes a search to determine where God resides in the human experience.
