The Seven Graces of God

Seven-year-old Mikail Mozkvoczny, a refugee of WWII arrives in New York in 1947. He is quickly Americanized and when his mother dies, finds employment as a cook in a local Diner. He wins the jack-pot though this might have been fixed on The Twenty-Four-Thousand Dollar Question television show and an all expense paid vacation to Rome. There he meets a beautiful woman, a second rate French con-man, Monsieur DArcy and his partner, The Albanian Spider, and an unscrupulous young priest, Father Mario, and gets involved with them in an ambitious gold heist, which ends in disaster. Returning to the US, he buys the Diner, and marries his childhood classmate, Emma Horowitz. They raise a family and she helps him chase down a crooked lawyer, who mishandled Mikes uncles estate, and reclaim and use a sizable inheritance to build a vast restaurant and food chain empire.