When Batista learns from a reliable informant that Rossini is returning to Italy, he knows for certain that his grandson remembers. As a wealthy banker with ties to Mussolini, the Vatican and the Mafia, Batista considers himself largely invincible, except for a secret that only Rossini can expose: the fact that he was Alessandra's murderer-a truth which would ostracize him from his peers or even worse-cause his death. In the intervening years, the elderly patriarch, Carlo Batista, becomes more powerful. The only way to heal himself, honor his mother and move beyond his painful past is to return to Italy to confront his grandfather. When a chance experience resurrects his long-suppressed memories, the twenty-eight year old Rossini, finally understands both the devastating dreams and his inability to commit to the loving family life he craves. Inside, however, he remains emotionally frozen, tormented by horrific nightmares he's unable to explain. His need to prove that he's worthy drives him to leave his few true friends and emigrate to America where he uses the opportunities provided by Prohibition and a booming stock market to build what on the outside seems like a perfect life.
After eleven years Rossini flees the orphanage. With no memories of the violent crime the child is sent to an orphanage. It is 1906 when the illegitimate, five-year-old Agostino Rossini witnesses his grandfather, Carlo Batista murder his mother, Alessandra Rossini.
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