Xinxiang 1900

The dawn in New York Harbor is strangled by thick fog. Twenty-year-old Vito Scalia set foot on this land called "Freedom" with his mother Rosa and sister Maria, with the humble hope of escaping the poverty and shadow of the old world in Sicily. What greeted them was not the gilded dream, but the contempt of the Ellis Island immigration officer, the whip of the Irish foreman, and the sewage-filled slums.