Sempre Con Te (Always with you) tells the fascinating and very personal stories of Italian women who migrated to Sydney's Northern beaches during the early 20th century. The stories of nine of these women, all from the harsh rural area of Calabria, who came to settle in the Northern Beaches suburbs of Dee Why, Beacon Hill, Brookvale and Narrabeen are revealed through family mementoes, photographs, recipes and treasured objects. Their stories describe the pain of separation, the bewilderment of settling in a different country, the struggle to set up a new life (often with a husband they had not met before) and the joy of being reunited with family and friends in the years that followed.