Olive Money

The story is that of Franca Viola, the Sicilian girl who in the mid-1960s was the first, after suffering violence, to reject the so-called "shotgun marriage." Oliva begins as a fifteen-year-old searching for her place in the world in Italy at the time, where the law stipulated that if the perpetrator of rape then married the "offended party," the conviction would automatically be extinguished (even if it was against a minor). Now an adult, Oliva ...