Pizzicata

Good fortune literally falls out of the sky in Pizzicata, set in southern Italy in 1943. A handsome Italian-American soldier named Tony Marciano is forced to parachute into rural Italy, near the place where he was born. He falls into the midst of a family including a beautiful, lonely young woman named Cosima. (...) Pizzicata makes the connection between emigration and war as two reasons that so many men in the region are missing. "America to us is pain", says Carmine. "It takes away our sons, like the war." Thus there is something gratifying in the ease with which Tony slips back into the gentle ways of his homeland, finding respite so easily.
(Janet Maslin, New York Times)