Salvatore Granata is a rather poor man who lives with his wife, son and
daughter in Calabria in Italy. One day Salvatore decides to move to
Belgium to work in the coal mine of Waterschei as a gastarbeider. His
family will stay in Italy as Salvatore will only be in Belgium for three
years. He hopes to earn much money in a rather small time-frame so he
can buy a forge for his son Rocco who is now still a 9 year old boy.
After a year, Salvatore decides his family should be with him, so they
also move to Belgium. They soon discover the life of a gastarbeider is
difficult: they have to live in some kind of barracks, they are
neglected by the Belgian people and they do not earn much. They are
astonished when they hear Salvatore signed a contract of five years and
children of gastarbeiders are ought to work in the mines as soon they
leave high school. Rocco meets Helena, the daughter of the local grocer
shop. However, the man is a racist and forbids his daughter to play with
Italian boys.
A biography about the belgium singer Rocco Granata .. really below the average ;/ i give it 3.8/10
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