Salvatore Todaro is the captain of the Cappellini. He leads in his own way. The bow is reinforced with steel in the off chance an opportunity to ram a ship arises and his crew is armed with daggers should a hand-to-hand battle occur.
Luigi, 20, lives with his mother and brother. A decade ago, their abusive father left. Luigi joins an extremist group seeking belonging, but his father's return poisons everything.
Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria, in Southernmost Italy. Her mother's untimely death when Rosa was a child casts a gloomy shadow on her present life.
Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples.
Daisy and Violet, siamese twin sisters, are admired for their beautiful voices and singing abilities. However, an English doctor sees them at a communion and threatens to separate them, threatening a normal life.
The story of a difficult birth set against the backdrop of child trafficking in Castel Volturno, an area outside Naples known for being the most lawless area in Italy.
