Directed by multi-award winner Jerry Ciccoritti, and starring Academy Award winner Sophia Loren, Lives of the Saints, a 2 part 4 hour mini-series produced in conjunction with the CTV and MediaTrade, tells the story of Vittorio Innocente and his mother, Christina, whose affair with a blue-eyed stranger shatters the innocence of Vittorio's childhood. As he pieces together the story of his mother's past, Vittorio discovers the truths of the villagers and the village, and gains a new understanding into human nature. The tiny Italian village of Valle del Sole harbours century-old superstitions, fears, maliciousness, hypocrisy and a pagan past. The closer Vittorio comes to the truth about his mother, the more his discoveries threaten to tear apart his own world.