Cabrini (2024) on Netflix

Plot summary

In 1889 New York City, Paolo, an Italian boy who speaks no English, cannot get a doctor for his sick mother. Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, a nun with tuberculosis, asks Pope Leo XIII to let her found a missionary order and work in China. He grants the order but sends her to New York, where Italian immigrants need help. She arrives with several Sisters and settles in the Five Points neighborhood. Archbishop Corrigan resists her until she shows him her papal authorization. The Sisters then take in Paolo and Enzo, an older homeless boy who lives in the sewers, after the boys try to steal food. Cabrini also befriends Vittoria, a woman who leaves prostitution to join their work.