Monica Bellucci stars in this Italian romantic drama directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. In 1940, in the sleepy Sicilian town of Castelcuto 12-year-old Renato Giuseppe Sulfaro has developed a crush on the beautiful and mysterious Malna Scordia Bellucci. Her husband Nino Gaetano Aronica, who has been away fighting in the war, has now been reported dead, and the women of the town have taken to spreading malicious gossip about this woman who never fails to turn their husbands' heads. But as the gossip spreads, and the town fills with half-truths and false rumours, there is only one person who knows the truth, and that is young Renato.