This heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love.

Funny,visual,and moving...

It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City. Lucia Sartori is the grocer in Greenwich Village...

It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City. Lucia Sartori is the grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is ripe with beautiful twenty five year old daughter of a prosperous Italian opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up and coming designer at the chic B. Altman department store on FifthAvenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls like her only read about in the sociey pages. Forced to choose between duty to her family and her own dreams, Lucia finds herself in the midst of a sizzling scandal in which secrets are revealed, her beloved career is jeopardized, and the Sartoris' honor is tested.