From the time of the cave dwellers to the sprawling habitat of modern men, the structure that encloses, protects, and defines the lives of men and women, takes on an identity of its own. An ancient Villa in the Tuscan countryside has a different significance for the many people of this story. An enchanted fairy land of childhood dreams, a setting of beauty for the passion of first love, a bitter symbol of prestige, a prison, a refuge, when its surroundings became the battlegrounds of invading armies.