An English mother leaves her husband and two children to follow her Italian lover to a lakeside villa. Her children follow her, intent on breaking up her affair.

Based on the same-titled novel by Rumer Godden, this story centers around Moira Clavering, a British homemaker who falls in love with a visiting Italian pianist Lorenzo Tasara. Moira leaves her neglectful husband and two children and moves to Italy to start a life with Lorenzo. Her two children journey to their mother's new home, the Villa Fiorita, where they team up with Lorenzo's daughter to try to break up the couple.—Edward Schiller <[email protected]>