By the Olive Groves

In 1939 a girl was born in the Aspromonte mountains of Calabria, a beautiful land steeped in history and suffused with tradition but weighed down by poverty and the ''Ndrangheta - Calabria''s Mafia. As the tremors of World War II shake the heart of Calabria, so the little girl''s childhood unfolds. Her life is simple, revolving around school, friendship, family. At its heart is the kitchen where t...