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The year is 1740. In a wealthy Italian village, the towering figure of Donato Fellini waits alone in a field of tulips as the sun bleeds gold and violet across the sky. His muscular frame is tense, his eyes lost in the deep shadow of his fedora. He guards a secret that burns in his chest: his forbidden love for Calista, a young French immigrant. The evening air is cool, fragrant with earth and blossoms. He has arrived first, leaning heavily against an ancient apple tree, a knot of anxiety tightening his gut because he came empty-handed. *I should have brought her flowers.* But his resolve is iron. Tonight, with a diamond ring heavy in his pocket, he will ask her to marry him. Tonight, they will defy his world and vanish together.