Giacomo Kazantzio, a gifted farmer with the visionaries' gift, lives in the early 19th century in the village of Stellata, on the banks of the Po River. During a village celebration, he is approached by the wandering Gypsy prophetess Violka Toska, who reads their shared future in the palm of his hand. A few months later, against their families' wishes, they marry. Half of their descendants inherit Giacomo's fair skin, blue eyes, and dreamy character, while the other half inherit Violka's dark skin, black eyes, and the gift of intuition. However, all members of the Kazantzio family are marked indelibly by an ominous prophecy revealed to Violka through the reading of tarot cards. The fate of the Kazantzio family is to oscillate between their desire to challenge fate and the dangerous habit of pursuing their dreams. They follow their choices to the end, whether dictated by love or revolutionary ideas, thirst for justice, or the desire to change the world. In an exciting family saga, Daniela Raimondi captures the major events of Italian history through the adventures of the Kazantzio family, starting from the struggle for the unification of Italy in the mid-nineteenth century and continuing into the twentieth century.
