[1][2] Don Salvatore Anastasia, a priest in a seminary in Tropea, Calabria (Italy), gets a ticket to visit his brother in New York.

Upon his arrival in America, he is greeted with much respect, as well as his brother, also from the Italian-American community of Little Italy.

Enthusiastic of that, he decided to stay on as assistant pastor in the church of Saint Lucia and bring it to a new shine.

But the recovery will be short-lived because Albert dies shortly after, assassinated in a barber salon.

Don Salvatore, overcome by grief at the loss of his brother, has no choice but to embark, sadly, and return to Italy.