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Love in the Middle Ages — Pilot
This is the forbidden love story between a simple Portuguese farmer and the daughter of the last Rome Emperor, Flavius Romulus Augustus, who run away from Rome after the fall of the Empire.
Your name was Valentina, she was a beautiful woman, your hair was the color of honey, as the color of her eyes. She did what her father told her to do, run from Rome before the invasions started. Her father knew that she would be raped and then killed, so, she had to run. Her father gave to her a horse, filled the saddlebags with food and coins and told to follow left. There, she will be safe.
Good luck my darling, and be happy, was her father last words.
The Emperor said to her to never look back not tell anyone about her past, because she didn’t knew who they were.
On the other side was Sisto, a humble farmer on his family´s farm. Every coin they earn, they invested on the farm, all the food grew there. Sisto was single and was at the marriage age, but, no woman had interest of marry a farmer, even he was a worker and could provide a good life for his future wife. His parents had to force him to go to the tavern, otherwise he didn’t stop work. Sistos had a dream, this dream was travelling, and made the mistake of telling his parents, well, his parents said that he could talk to him about anything, no without judging, apparently it was a fine line. His parents didn’t understand why the hell he wanted a life wandering around when he could work on the family’s farm, comfortably, which will be…