La Storia - Season 1, Episode 01

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In 1938, widowed teacher Ida Ramundo lives with her teenage son Nino in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Rome. That year, Benito Mussolini gives a speech condemning Judaism as the enemy of Italian fascism. Ida, whose mother was Jewish, is frightened by this. In 1940, a young German solider named Günther follows Ida home and rapes her, and she later discovers that she is pregnant. While Nino is away at an Avanguardia Giovanile Fascista camp, Ida gives birth to her second child, a blue-eyed son named Giuseppe, nicknamed 'Useppe'.

Genre: Drama