While post World War II America was a country filled with prosperous opportunity, Italy was not. In the first of this four-part mini-series about immigrating from Italy to America in the 1970s as a tweleve-year-old boy, Jerry Casarella discusses his hometown of Bisaccia, Italy. He talks about the way of life for poor towns, the people of Bisaccia and his parents' experiences living in German-occupied Italy.

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