When a tragic event unfolds during the course of the night, a young man named [character name] will head down a path of violence that will tear his world apart.
Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. When he dies unexpectedly the family fortune, one flash car, remains with the mistress. Despite all his betrayals, Lucia sides with her father. Desperate and destitute in a country she doesn't like or understand, Lola's quest for revenge begins. Caught in the tempests of begrudging love, revenge, sibling rivalry, jealousy and passion, fourteen year old Lucia must find the strength to survive on her own terms. Aided to break free of her mother by her eccentric Aunt Manolo she struggles to find her own identity and her own quest for justice puts her on a collision course with her mother.
Love's Brother follows the story of Italian-Australian immigrant Angelo who travels to rural Australia in the 1950s to find his brother, Gino. Along the way, Angelo falls in love with a local girl, and together they navigate the challenges of their cultural differences, while also dealing with their own personal struggles and dreams.
A newly arrived Italian immigrant in Sydney, Australia struggles to fit in and adapt to the Australian way of life while working as a laborer and encountering various cultural clashes.
Paulie returns to his hometown of Adelaide after spending three years in a monastery. Upon returning home, he finds his buddies have not grown up. Together, they decide to open a café.
A nameless band from Bulgaria dreams of fame and fortune. Along the way, they face various obstacles, including bad singing, Italian tourists, and compromising situations. Despite their misfortunes, the band's friendship and love for music prevail.
Adultery tears apart a long-standing friendship. Based on the opera La Cavalleria Rusticana.
Raffaella's first period comes at the same time as her first crush, on Shaun, a cook's assistant and the brother of her friend Sharon. Raffaella's Italian aunt insists that they make "love biscuits" for Shaun, a recipe from the old country using three drops of menstrual blood. Raffaella sends the cookies to Shaun via Sharon, who announces her own crush on Raffaella. Is it the cookies? What's a girl to do? With the help of her aunt and some ideas of her own, Raffaella finds a solution and learns something about friendship and romance.
Coming-of-age story about an Italian-Australian teenager making his way in the world.
Sixteen-year-old Mars wants more from her life than just a fistful of flies which, to her, is a fistful of nothing. Stifled and dominated by her family, Mars just wants to be free. Denied relationships with the people who truly understand her, Mars battles her family on her own, and in her quest to be treated as a grown-up she gives her mother the courage to act and forces her father to make the choice of his life. A story about how a young girl finally finds the courage to have faith in herself.
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