PLOT:
Once when she was younger, Helena attended an opera with her tutor and mother figure Justina. Watching the performance, Helena wondered aloud why there were no female heroes. Justina told her that there have been - there was even once a female
Pope. But she had to disguise herself and dress in men's clothing until the day she died. "...You must vow to outlive them all." was the lesson Justina would pass onto the young and
impressionable Helena that night. And it's a lesson that would
certainly serve Helena now - vastly outnumbered by Sicilian prison guards. But strangely enough, out of nowhere, the guards are told to stand down and Helena is strangely allowed to escape unscathed.
The prison debacle behind her, Helena heads with her Uncle Tommy to the Pope's resort where the family business is taking place. Helena will be rooming with her cousin, the pug-like and repulsive Monica (Tommy's daughter). Helena can
tell that Monica doesn't like her one bit - but that's okay. Tomorrow will be Helena's twenty-first birthday and she will receive her family's vast inheritance and move away. What's more it would seem as though fate has granted her a
love interest as well. Upon visiting the Pope's chapel runs into a young man by the name of Tony Angelo whom she hadn't seen since
Kindergarten. She finds the young man charming and attractive, as wedding bells
flash before his eyes on their first meeting. He even gives Helena his late mother's rosary to replace the one stolen from around her neck so long ago. Tony is the son of Nino Angelo, the head of the other family at the retreat. But Tony doesn't seem like his father. He doesn't hold meetings
with the Pope like Nino. He seems special and Helena believes she may be falling for the young man.
Upon returning to her shared room that evening though, Helena's stomach is turned in knots. She opens the door to find her cousin Monica raped and beaten badly. The man responsible is Tony's dad, Nino. Helena urges Monica to come forward
with the rape but instead she blames the beating on Helena. Uncle Tommy believes his daughter and slaps Helena across the face. What's more later one, Uncle Tommy breaks the news that Sal
Asaro was murdered in prison.
Angry and hurt, that night Helena dons a cat-suit and mask and sneaks into Nino's bedroom. Beating the man savagely with a baseball bat she takes her vengeance out on him and prays in her head for God's forgiveness. Later she runs into Tony who wants to take
Helena back to Gotham with him and assume his father's business but she refuses. He knows nothing about the kind of man his father is. And what's more she feels she never wants to go back to Gotham - especially not if it means becoming another brainless sycophantic mob-wife.
Perhaps the final straw that breaks the camels back comes when Helena meets with her accountant on her birthday. She's shocked to find that they claim only $2 million remain from her family's vast fortune. Unwilling to believe that such a paltry sum could be all that remains
from an entire family's wealth she holds a knife to the accountant's throat until he tells her where the rest is. That night, Helena heads back to the opera house where the accountant claims that her money is being
divvied up by a power so great and unspeakable the accountant was reduced to a blubbering mess just mentioning them. She kicks down the door to find a room full of well to do looking business men and a priest surrounding a young woman
in what looks to be some kind of ritualistic murder!
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