Carlo, a young doctor, occasionally meets Anna, the daughter of professor Valli. Carlo falls in love with Anna, who returns his feelings; but her father longs a brilliant marriage for her.
Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in Rome, moving between accomplishments and routine, affection and something that might be fading. In search of new energy, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Vittoria—bright, curious, a little eccentric. Tensions soon rise.
Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo can't really decide until it's too late.
A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
19 yaşındaki Amerikalı Lucy, yakın zamanda intihar etmiş bir şair olan annesi Sara'nın Bohem ruhlu sanatçı arkadaşlarının arasında yaz tatili geçireceği Toskana'naya gelir. Buranın yerlilerinden fırlama bir delikanlı olan Niccolo, dört yıl önce Lucy'ye ilk öpücüğün heyacanını tattıran kişidir. İki genç tekrar yakınlaşırken; Lucy'nin evsahipleri olan Graysonlar, genç kızı bir sanatçı kolonisi haline getirdikleri kendi dünyalarına sokarlar. Böylece onun gençliği ve taze ruhundan beslenmeye başlarlar. Bu tazelik, orada tatilini geçiren konuklar arasında en çok Alex Parrish'IN ilgisini çekecektir. Ölümcül bir hastalığın son demlerini yaşayan bir yazar olan Alex, genç kızın çekiciliği ve yaşama sevincinden etkilenir.Yaz geçerken, Lucy Niccolo'nun bir kadın canavarı olduğunu öğrenecek, Alex'ten gereken hayat dersini alacak ve kimbilir belki de gerçek ve masum aşkı da yaşayacaktır! Tüm bunlar olurken annesi ve kendiyle ilgli bir kaç sırrın da gizemi çözülecektir elbet...
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
A middle-aged man, Pietro, becomes a widower and must take care of his daughter. He will never have the time to delve into his own pain, committing himself to raising his daughter with love and dedication, in an all-encompassing relationship in which one heals the other's wounds through his own. When, after a few years, he tries to start a new life with a new partner, not everything will go as hoped: his daughter's reaction will be exaggerated and Pietro will be put to the test. He will find himself struggling between anger and paternal instinct.