188 1 year, in a small village in northern Italy, Giovanni's great-grandfather began to try to make ice cream, which was the beginning of a sweet career. The ice cream business gave his great-grandfather a charming wife and a stable job. Handicraft has been passed down from generation to generation, and the life of ice cream merchants has also been closed and fixed. Every spring, their family will move to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and open an ice cream shop. They worked hard for eight months and kept making and selling ice cream. In winter, they closed the shop and went back to their hometown to rest for four months. People who eat ice cream feel all kinds of sweet flavors, but people who make ice cream hate ice cream. For them, ice cream is a shackle, trapping them in a square inch and living the same life day after day and year after year.
Giovanni's father sold ice cream for 57 years, but he wanted to be an inventor when he was young. He used the money earned from selling ice cream to buy various tools and put them in the basement. After retirement, he stayed in it all day and made all kinds of love for his "sweetheart" with iron. In order to survive, for the next generation, my father sealed his dream in the basement and never saw the sun again.
What he didn't expect was that when he was a teenager, Giovanni met the director of the World Poetry Festival and fell in love with poetry. At the age of eighteen, he did not hesitate to make a decision to break the family tradition-to dedicate his life to poetry. Since then, ice cream has become an ornament in his life, and poetry has become the main course. He reads poems written by poets all over the world, talks with poets, flies all over the world, wakes up in different hotel rooms every day, and organizes or participates in various poetry festivals.
His "defection" left his younger brother Luca no choice but to make ice cream day and night, marry the girl next door and live a stable and complicated life like his ancestors. Luca held a grudge against Drofani until she found out that she couldn't get her wife pregnant, so she had to turn to Drofani for help. As he wished, Zufani gave birth to his brother-in-law. As the child grew up, Zhuofani gradually realized that everything Luca owned was abandoned by him without hesitation. He also deeply loves his brother's wife and children, but all this is the price he must pay. He had to continue to enrich his life with poetry and busyness. Soon, their children will be adults. Will he take over the ice cream shop handed down from generation to generation, or will he follow his inner choice? Are you loyal to your family mission or your heart? This is an eternal question.
I can't help but think of Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken:
Do you know that?/You know what? No matter which way you choose, there will be regrets and sighs, so since you have chosen, go ahead bravely!