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Giovanni Bazinni is summoned from Italy to work in his family’s US fireworks factory. Forlorn and suicidal after being dumped by the love of his life, Bazinni gets his death wish: The dangerous job has already claimed his cousin, who was killed in a factory explosion. While in the States, Bazinnni falls in love with his cousin’s widow, develops a special bond with her son and realizes that life is worth living.

Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 19th-century St. Petersburg. Anna’s husband, Alexei, offers her a difficult choice: Go into exile with Vronsky but never see her young son again, or remain with her family and abide by the rules of discretion.