Fourteen-year-old Veronica lives on a farm south of Naples, Italy, where her family raises sheep. Watch them make sheep's milk cheese and deliver it to customers. Visit the nearby 2600-year-old city of Paestum, accompany the family to Solerno to see the city's famous Christmas light displays, and walk through the restored town of Pompeii, which had been burned by a volcanic eruption.
Luigi, age 10, lives in Olevano sul Tusciano in a building that also houses his family's olive oil business. Learn how the oil is pressed, and watch the family make pizzas for a big family dinner. Visit Luigi's school, as well as the town's cemetery, where the family attends their relatives' graves on the Day of the Dead. Accompany the town folks on their festive pilgrimage to the seventh-century grotto of Michael the Archangel to a mountain high above the town.
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