It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York city. Lucia sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in greenwich village. The postwar boom is ripe with opportunities for talented ...It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York city. Lucia sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in greenwich village. The postwar boom is ripe with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic b.