Giuliano Montagnini recalls how his grandfather Domizio had died during the First World War. Grandmother Artenice Oltramari, known as Serafina, had to bring up three children alone on the small family farm. Life was hard and there was little money. In 1936, when Giuliano’s father Carlo was 22, he and Serafina were inspired by the successes of other families in Bergantino. They decided to build their own fairground ride. Their Russian Mountain was also known as the Shimmy. The family travelled this beautifully decorated ride until Carlo was called up for service in the Second World War. Serafina was once more alone. This time she had to take care of the family business. Serafina had never forgotten her husband Domizio. Although he was presumed dead she had never been informed officially. As she travelled from piazza to piazza she decided to start an investigation She wanted to know what had happened to her Domizio in the Great War, and how and where exactly he had met his death. Serafina deliberately travelled to areas that had seen intense military action in WWI. She spent all her spare time visiting churches and cemeteries looking for traces of her lost husband. Her travelling developed into a pilgrimage. One day, Serafina received a letter that had been caught up in bureaucracy for years. It was from the Commanding Officer of her husbands regiment. It informed her that Private Montagnini had been preparing to return home with his dismissal papers, excited at the thought of hugging his ‘little angels’, as he called his children. As Domizio was about to leave, there was an explosion. He was fatally injured and passed away, clutching the demob papers in his hand. The letter also informed Serafina that Domizio had been interred in a cemetery in Basiliano, in the third row from the right. She went there only to find that her husbands’ remains had been transferred. They had been removed to the military cemetery at Re di Puglia. Her hopes of finding him alive were finally shattered. But at last she had found a place where she could pray for her true love.