The male protagonist who fakes mental illness to avoid WWII deployment but is sent to the Russian front instead. Listed as missing in action, he survives the war and starts a second family in the Soviet Union with a woman who saved him. Years later, he returns to Italy to ask Giovanna to leave with him, but she refuses. He leaves her a promised fur coat and departs forever.
They enter marriage before Antonio is sent to war.
The plot states that Giovanna and Antonio marry to delay Antonio's deployment during World War II.
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