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Tony and Gigi are two young people coming from very different places who fall together in the embrace of passion. It takes one kiss. But even before that kiss, they beg to agree, never to share their secrets. Gigi sees them with children...nine children. But on their wedding night, a knock comes at the door. Will the ghost of Laura Antonelli permit their love? The scene is the North End of Boston, in the dramatic days of The Great War, the Molasses Flood, and the flu pandemic of 1918.

It's 1899. An illegal immigrant, Tony LaStoria, just 10 years old, an unaccompanied minor, the son of a tailor, lands in New York and then must make his way in the world's greatest city. Overcoming every crisis, Tony finds a partnership to last a lifetime in his friend Harry Spritzka, whose family, Jews from Vilna, are in the apparel trade. Manhattan, the island, is the Bangladesh of 1905. Seventy percent of all store-bought clothing in America is made in Manhattan.