Rating: III Duration: 132mins Content: Following the sucide of her mother, nineteen years old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to stay with some old friends of her mother and to have her portrait painted. She herself has tow-motives. The first is to renew her acquaintance with the handsome young boy from a neihboring family with whom she shared her first diss on a visit four years earlier. And the second is to solve the riddle left in a diary ritten by her dead mother, Sara, who was a well respected poet and a model, a free sprit who was eager for experience but shy of responsibility. While Lucy prrsues Nicolo her presence has a effect on the jaded of her hosts and their houseguests. Only the very old and the ery ill can remember the pain and pleasure of youth, but Lucy's innocence stirs up a whirlwind of sensuality so that, by the time she has embraced the solution to her won riddle, all of
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