At summer's end, Lella Rossi can't bear to return to her life among the upper crust of Milan, so she decides to take her search for meaning and connection to small-town America.
Her friend Livia, who has suffered a devastating loss, is there teaching at Cornell University. Together, Lella and Livia build a culturally and socially diverse group of friends and lovers that is soon struck by a tragedy affecting them all.
Will this devastating...