Cruel Peter

It is Christmas 1908 in Messina one of the richest merchant cities of the Mediterranean Peter the 13 yearold son of a rich English family is notorious for his cruelty to children animals and servants One night he is ambushed and wakes up in a coffin underground in the citys Gothic cemetery buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mothers estate When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are forgotten Until a century later an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in the city