“The foolish sods think they’re all being shipped to Austria. They’ll get one hell of the shock if they result in Australia!”

Carlo Minelli is about to discover that battle and art are certainly not mutually exclusive. His politically ambitious dad is properly curating Carlo’s upcoming on the family’s Lombardy vineyard. But Carlo and his creative mother have additional ideas. On your day he could be meant to consider up a highly coveted art scholarship or grant at

the French-run Villa Medici in Rome, Il Duce declares war. Carlo is definitely turned from the greatly guarded entrance towards the Villa, leaving him neither students nor gainfully employed in support from the war effort.

Press-ganged in to the Italian Army and captured in North Africa, Carlo the POW sketches and paints his way across three continents and several oceans, bringing the hardships of World War II into sharpened relief against unexpected mateship, beauty and love.