Plot: Lombardy, Italy, seventeenth century. Renzo and Lucia"s love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry. Based Alessandro Manzoni"s celebrated novel "The Betrothed" which is to Italian literature what "War and Peace" is to Russian or "Gone With The Wind" to American.