Young Giovanna navigates her passage from childhood into adolescence as she experiences the different sides of Naples during the 1990s.

Young Giovanna navigates her passage from childhood into adolescence as she experiences the different sides of Naples during the 1990s. A girl in search of her true reflection in a divided Naples: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity.

It would appear that Christian and Leonora have it all. They are living the perfect life with their son, who's just been declared healthy after a serious long-term illness. Their future seems bright, but at a party at Christian's company, Leonora sees her husband with a younger woman, architect Xenia. Leonora realizes that Christian might leave her. On the spot, Leonora makes a decision: she refuses to be the woman who got left behind - and will avoid this by any means necessary.