This documentary traces the origins of San Francisco’s historic Caffè Trieste through the eyes, words, and life of its founder, Gianni Giotta. In doing so, it evokes postwar Trieste and the birth of the new America. Caffè Trieste soon became a social and cultural hub of North Beach, San Francisco’s Italian neighborhood. It was the place where the leading figures of the Beat Generation gathered in the 1950s and 1960s, and where Francis Ford Coppola wrote part of his screenplay for “The Godfather.”