The Orsini Affair

A Ghastly Crime - Decades Later, RevengeA nun is violated. Twelve years later, a young Roma girl is also raped.Both violations result in pregnancies. The nun, twin boys; the young girl, a boy - Manfri. The villain in both cases is the same man - a priest, Vittorio Alonso Orsini, years later to be appointed Archbishop of Milan.The Orsini are a powerful family with close ties to the Vatican. They are hopeful that Vittorio will one day become Pope. Already, there have been two Orsini popes. They are anxious for a third.But Vittorio has a dark side to him. He is a rapist.We follow both victims over the next several decades.Ultimately, the young Roma girl takes her revenge.