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Ned loses his job at Mercury. Artie celebrates but is also deeply saddened that they lost Mercury to Ned. He learned that Ada died a long time before he stopped writing and sending her money.
After Artie dies, a woman in Tel Aviv who broke into Ada’s apartment to scavenge for food and found all of Artie’s money on the doormat contacts Artie’s son, Billy. The funds enabled the woman to escape Germany with her family. Billy’s relationship with his father was always difficult, but after rereading the woman’s letter, he looks for some of his father’s films to rewatch.
Eddie Lu now acts in a classic drama on the radio as Eddie Lewis.
Hollywood blacklists communist sympathizers, and Rudi Bloch appears to be a target.
Vincent/Nino is honorably discharged and secures a visa for his “mother” Concetta. He buys her a house with an orange tree in the garden, but he does not send the letter he writes to tell her.
Maria meets her mother and aunts for lunch. Ciccio has passed away. Annunziata accumulated a fair sum of money with a black-market trade in food stamps throughout the war.
Maria and Annunziata return to San Lorenzo but find no trace of Giuseppe.
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By Anthony Marra