Picture it: Queens, New York, 1988. A beautiful Sicilian-American city girl is sitting crisscross applesauce in her parents’ living room, adorned with 1980s kitsch, with a bowl of popcorn to her left. To her right, in a baby seat, is her newly hatched baby sister, whom the Sicilian-American girl is trying to ply with various forms of entertainment to keep her quiet.
The beautiful Sicilian-American city girl has other pressing matters at hand: it’s Saturday night, nine p.m., and her favorite television show is about to go on. Tonight’s episode is titled “My Brother, My Father,” and it features Angelo, the priest brother of one of the main characters, Sophia, coming all the way from Sicily to pay the family a visit.
