The most beautiful place to be is in love.
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
adultery
virgin
friendship
italy
poem
artist
diary
romance
coming of age
joy of life
summer
kissing
first love
tuscany, italy
sexual awakening
sculptor
feelings
father daughter relationship
loss of mother
rural
terminal disease