After her mother commits suicide, a young woman travels to Italy in search of love, truth and a deeper connection with herself.
For 20 years, many visitors have come to the villa on an Italian hilltop owned by an English artist. Lucy, a 19-year-old American, was last there four years ago and wants to meet up again with the young Italian who kissed her and corresponded for a while. She has brought the diary of her late mother, filled with enigmatic poems that suggest Lucy was conceived on that hilltop. Lucy wants to find out if Daddy is the Italian war correspondent who wrote to her mother for 20 years. Then again Daddy could be the dying English playwright in residence, or the artist who uses a chainsaw on tree trunks for his sculptures. The three, of course, have no idea that Lucy is there to solve a mystery. They, the artist's wife and daughter, and the daughter's American lover are most intrigued by Lucy's virginity.—Dale O'Connor <[email protected]>
Lucy Harmon is a 19-year old American girl who is the daughter of poet Sara Harmon. After Sara commits suicide, Lucy travels to Italy and visits her mother's friends, Diana and her husband, Irish artist Ian. Lucy wants a picture painted and decided to return to Italy to reunite with Nicolo Donati, the Italian boy she fell in love with four years earlier on her last trip to Italy. But reuniting with Nicolo isn't her only reason for returning to Italy; she's on a personal journey to discover her father's identity. She befriends playwright Alex, who is dying of cancer; she thinks he could be her father, or it could be the artist who makes statues from trees. She also sets out to lose her virginity as Diana and her daughter Miranda's boyfriend become intrigued by her.—Daniel Williamson
This is the summer when young Lucy, a 19-year-old American, has decided to lose her virginity. For the summer holidays, she arrives in a beautiful place in Tuscany, a villa on a hilltop owned by an English artist, where she discovers different interesting people of different age at different stages of life, of different commitment, understanding, and sexuality.
Her dead mother left Lucy her diary which points out she was conceived on this very hilltop, but doesnt say who her father is; Lucy has to find out.
Lucy also wants to give herself to the young Italian, Nicolo, who kissed her four years ago, but she discovers that life is not always what you have decided, especialy when love is concerned, it is not that simple, but it is beautiful. She takes in all this beauty. We all steal beauty from the world. We need it as we live, as we create (the object of the artist, or creating life), as we comply to life, as one's loses one's virginity.
Life feeds on stealing beauty, before becoming beauty itself. Lucy has grown up.
