Taddeo Harbutt

Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.

舞台は19世紀半ばのニューヨーク。移民同士の抗争で父を殺され、自身も投獄された少年アムステルダム。15年後、復讐のために素性を隠して、父を殺したギャング団に入り込む。しかし、そこで謎めいた女ジェニーと出会い、許されない恋に落ちてしまう……。