Alessandro y Nicola Ferraioli, gemelos de siete a?os, abandonan el pueblo de Alciello en el sur de Italia para ser educados en el monasterio de Santa Mar?a del Poggio. Tras tomar diferentes caminos, se reencuentran diez a?os m?s tarde en la ciudad de Roma; Alessandro como el bar?n del caf? puertorrique?o y Nicola como el secretario del papa Leo XIII en el Vaticano. Es el a?o 1898 y los Estados Unidos de Am?rica le han declarado la guerra a Espa?a por su inter?s en la estrat?gicamente situada isla de Puerto Rico. Alessandro embarca hacia esa isla del Caribe para asegurar su abasto de caf? puertorrique?o, grano por el que el Papa Leo se desvive. Durante ese viaje Alessandro se enfrentar? al amor, la locura y la guerra.Alessandro and Nicola Ferraioli, seven year old twins, leave the town of Alciello in southern Italy to be educated at the monastery of Santa Mar?a del Poggio. Taking different roads, both will meet ten years after in the city of Rome; Alessandro as the baron of Puerto Rican coffee and Nicola as secretary of Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican. It is the year 1898 and the United States of America has declared war on Spain to secure the militarily strategic island of Puerto Rico. Alessandro will embark on a trip to this island to secure the coffee for which Pope Leo has become so fond of. The voyage will bring him face to face with love, insanity and war.
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