Casey Costra

Touch Casey Costra

In Staten Island's Little Italy neighborhood, Rosa DeAngelo marries at 18, leaving behind her secret admirer, Tony Prezzi. He in turn marries his own pursuer, a NYC cop. Two tragedies later, they each bury themselves in their jobs, drug-store clerk and auto mechanic, and earn promotions. The new European touch therapy at Le Salon de l'Amour brings feeling back to shut-down abuse survivors, so Rosa trains to become a therapist. After a near-fatal incident, Rosa rises from her hospital bed to give a high-school graduation speech that goes viral on YouTube and creates a grassroots movement of women like herself. Tony proposes, but Rosa's not yet ready to try again. Rosa's old-country Mama sets up an arranged marriage between the two. That move backfires and Tony finally finds another woman to love, a non-Italian. Tony's happy ending is not happy for anybody else in his family, so....