Donielle Moretti is a woman in her early thirties in Italy in the midst of World War II. She begins her story telling us about her present state, she is in a single cell in a concentration camp. The reason she gets a single cell is because she is a celebrated Italian opera singer. The story goes on to her reflecting on how her family was broken apart, the day she sang sitting with her mother on the piano for the first time, her brother being drafted, her mother running away early in the resistance to the day that the soldiers came to her village and took them captive. A beautiful moment where she saves the lives of the other people hiding by standing strong and singing to take attention off of a crying baby. She is a true fighter. Flipping pages trying to figure out what song she is going to sing that evening for the military men she must perform for. Her climax brings her back to all of the things that she has lost and how she is being rewarded for her voice but is so lonely she would rather be with her people. In the last moment she decides that she is going to sing a song that will probably get her killed. A song in Italian that was written specifically about the resistance of the Italian people during the war but she is resolute in her decision, the last notes she will ever sing.
***Actress will need to sing in Italian, this can be shortened within the piece to make it easier for the actress performing. ***It could also be completely cut out of the performance and still tell the story adequately.