Gabriele Vacis

When an uncompromising idealist and rich, arrogant heir cross paths, their contrasting beliefs begin to shift when they fall for each other.

Italy, 2035. Mansfield, Stendhal and Buzzati are friends and partisans fighting against the regime. Engaged in relays of coded messages hidden in ciphered books, they are forced into a race against time: the fascists are about to take the town of Ovada.

An aimless college graduate jumping from one job interview to another — killing time in between with his wisecracking and deadbeat room-mate — falls in love with an actress.

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.