Prologue: (voice over: a man's voice; deep with age) Our story starts in a little town in Genoa, Italy where there lived a girl named Elise. At that time she was already a woman at 19 years of age. She lived with her real father whose work had caused her mother's absence from her early life. Her father was a skilled master craftsman who traveled all over Italy, often leaving Elise at the care of her mother and later on her nursemaid, Antonia. When her mother left her when she was only 5 years old, her father fell in love with the nursemaid and soon they were wed. And so they lived in happiness for 14 more years. One day, while Elise was outside in the fields practicing her archery with her stepbrother, Paco, she received an engraved letter which she immediately took to her father. The letter it turns out, was a wedding invitation for her real mother's wedding. Seeing that her father was willing to make peace and attend the wedding, Elise decided to suspend her disbelief and attend it as well if only to meet her real mother once again. In about four weeks, Elise, Paco, her father and stepmother were off to Transylvania to attend a wedding.