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In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of rare metal and movie stardom, she stunts them into buying tickets for America. Yet no earlier do they land on the squalid Lower East Part of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and discontinued in the pub. Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to make it through through cunning and inventiveness. As she discovers the secrets of his trade, she commences to shape her own future. She falls deeply in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they tripped across America within an ice cream truck. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, "The Glaciers Cream Queen" - doyenne of your empire of ice cream franchises and a famous television personality. Lillian's go up to fame and lot of money spans 70 years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the multimedia. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely sophisticated girl who prefers a good stiff drink to a ice cream cone. So when her past commences to catch up with her, everything she has put in her life building is at stake.
