Levi's Gift

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Inside those walls was a man, as young as I was, learning how to becomes a man of God. He owns my heart to this day. Levi's Gift tells the story of Lena, a woman in her mid-forties, and her daughter Mattie who has just given birth to a stillborn son. Following Mattie's spiral into depression, Lena brings her from their home in America to Italy in an attempt to rekindle in her daughter the sense of family and identity she lost after the death of her child. But this requires Lena to reveal what she experienced as a young woman in Italy - the love she has secretly treasured all her life. She hopes that by encountering the past together, they can find hope for the future.