A Woman What?

She is a young woman determined to make and break molds literally and figuratively as part of an extended Italian-American family in Boston during the 1950s. She's stereotypically traditional until she isn't and then no one escapes the fun or the dangerous consequences when the Belardo family starts WWIII on the North End. Mary battles with the nicest mean man she's ever met when he stands in the way of her dream. Her nemesis becomes another blond who has her own dream--of merely taking over the world.