Not all Cinderella stories have happy endings. Some are glorious.

Thirteenth century Tuscany was a time and a place of great passions. When knights and nobles battled outside the great walled towns crowning the Tuscan hills. It was a time of intrigue and betrayal. Of great wealth and bitter poverty. Of loyalty, lust, murder and revenge. And it was a time of star crossed lovers. Romeo and Juliet. Paolo and Francesca. Arsenio and Margherita.

Margherita was the beautiful daughter of a Tuscan farmer. Arsenio Del Pecora was a knight and a member of a wealthy and ruthlessly ambitious family. Unable to marry, they lived openly together until tragedy ripped them apart. Cast out by her lover's family and spurned by her father and cruel stepmother; Margherita made a fateful decision. And stepped out of her old life and into history.

Even saints fall in love. Poverella is the story of St. Margherita of Cortona. And Arsenio Del Pecora, the man she loved.