at first light of morning

A vivid and detailed story of love and loss in wartime On a gray dawn in 1943, Chiara Ravello is walking through the outskirts of Rome's Jewish quarter when she sees a group of people being forced onto trucks. A Jewish woman catches her eye and tells her seven-year-old son to accompany Chiara. Pretending the boy is her nephew, Chiara, who had abandoned the idea of motherhood, saves the boy, Daniele, from certain death and has the chance to raise him as her own. Decades later, Chiara is still haunted by Daniele's ghost, whose behavior and choices constantly make her question the decision she made in 1943. When the phone rings and a teenage girl claims to be the boy's daughter, Chiara knows the time has come to face the past.