Beschreibung:
Emily at 19 is unemployed, unskilled, and a lonely single mum missing the strength of almost-husband Henry, but his French family had forbidden marriage to the common likes of Emily, and by 1933, Emily is floundering on the bedrock bottom of her life in the golden state of California during the Great Depression. Unwed Emily, shunned by her religious father, is getting desperate and too destitute to buy adequate food for her infant son Danny, until Emily meets a foster mother named Anna. Childless Swiss couple, Anna and her usually out-of-work, drinker husband Ernst, grow to love Danny and soon consider adopting him, but Anna makes the mistake of introducing Emily to Silvano, a Sicilian immigrant impatient to get rich in America.