Five-year-old Lili, motherless since birth, is sent by her father Aldo to Lakeside Sanatorium to pose as Sofia, his enemy’s daughter. Aldo trades her for twenty thousand dollars to comfort the mentally broken mafia Signora Lupo. Mistreated at the sanatorium, Lili’s gentle kindness soothes the grieving woman, who comes to love her as her late daughter Angelica. Don Lupo, initially wary of the imposter, grows fiercely protective, saving her amid gunfights. Aldo freezes to death abroad, while Sofia, whose identity was stolen, winds up homeless and stealing. Abandoned and frail once, Lili becomes the Lupo family’s cherished heiress. She lost a selfish father, but gained two guardians who would die for her.
