It's Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the Mediterranean's richest merchant cities. Peter, a 13-year-old son of a wealthy English family, is well-known for his cruelty to children, animals, and servants. He is ambushed one night and awakens in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are lost. Until an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in town a century later.
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It's Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the Mediterranean's richest merchant cities. Peter, a 13-year-old son of a wealthy English family, is well-known for his cruelty to children, animals, and servants. He is ambushed one night and awakens in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are lost. Until an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in town a century later.
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