Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: uncle 's offer is growing in appeal to Primo, Fact2: restaurant Despite is failing Secondo 's efforts and Primo 's magnificent food, Fact3: assuming celebrity jazz singer 's patronage in revitalize brothers business town, Fact4: Primo and Secondo plunge themselves into preparation for big night, Fact5: Phyllis runs off to beach
Output (English): On the New Jersey Shore in the 1950s, two Italian immigrant brothers from Abruzzo own and operate a restaurant called Paradise. One brother, Primo, is a brilliant, perfectionist chef who chafes under their few customers expectations of Americanized Italian food. Their uncles offer for them to return to Rome to help with his restaurant is growing in appeal to Primo. The younger brother, Secondo, is the restaurant manager, a man enamored of the possibilities presented by their new endeavor and life in America. Despite Secondos efforts and Primos magnificent food, their restaurant is failing. Secondos struggles as a businessman render him unable to commit to his girlfriend Phyllis, and he has recently been sleeping with Gabriella, the wife of a competitor. Her husbands eponymous restaurant, Pascals, has succeeded despite or perhaps due to the mediocre, uninspired food served there. Desperate to keep Paradise afloat, Secondo asks Pascal for a loan. Pascal demurs, repeating a past offer for the brothers to work for him. This Secondo refuses to do; he and his brother want their own restaurant. In a seemingly generous gesture, Pascal insists that he will persuade popular ItalianAmerican singer Louis Prima to dine at Paradise when in town, assuming the celebrity jazz singers patronage will revitalize the brothers business. Primo and Secondo plunge themselves into preparation for this big night, spending their entire savings on food and inviting people including a newspaper reporter to join them in a magnificent feast centered around a timballo, a complicated baked pasta dish. Primo pours his heart into every dish, lavishing care and great expertise on the cooking. As they wait for Prima and his entourage to arrive, the diners indulge in the exquisite food and partake in a fabulous celebration. Hours pass, however, and it becomes apparent that the famous singer is not coming. Phyllis catches Secondo and Gabriella kissing and runs off to the beach. At Gabriellas insistence, Pascal admits that he never called Louis Prima, thus ending the party. Secondo follows Phyllis to the beach where they have a final quarrel. Primo and Secondo have a fiery, heartwrenching argument, chafing at their mutual differences. In the wee hours of the morning, Pascal admits to Secondo that he set the brothers up for failure; not as revenge for Secondos affair with Gabriella but because the brothers would have no choice but to return to Italy or work for Pascal. Secondo denies him, saying they will never work for him. As dawn breaks, Secondo silently cooks an omelette. When done, he divides it among three plates, giving one to Cristiano, their waiter, and eating one himself. Primo hesitantly enters, and Secondo hands him the last plate. They eat without speaking, and lay their arms across one anothers shoulders.