A woman recounts the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.
Genre: Drama
Cast:Alba Rohrwacher , Margherita Mazzucco , Gaia Girace , Annarita Vitolo , Alessio Gallo , Luca Gallone , Francesco Serpico , Giovanni Amura , Giovanni Buselli , Eduardo Scarpetta , Elvis Esposito , Valentina Acca , Antonio Buonanno , Rosaria Langellotto , Gennaro De Stefano , Fabrizio Cottone , Pina Di Gennaro , Riccardo Palmieri
Lenu and Lila continue their lives in different path: Lila works in the shoe store and Elena returns to school.
Antonio is mad as Lenu for trying to stop his draft to the army. Stefano hits Lila and opens his heart to Lenu. Lila is mad at Lenu for trying to reconcile Stefano and her.
Lila invests her energy into the grocery store, even on the expense of her health - But she refuses to have her photo in the shoe store. Elena is invited to a party at her teacher's home and Lila wants to join her.
On Lila's request, Lenu joins her and Pinuccia at Ischia for the summer. They meet Nino Sarratore, and both are attracted to him.
Lila and Nino get dangerously close to each other during the summer vacation in Ischia. This breaks Lenu's heart, feeling twice betrayed.
Following the vacation in Ischia Elena disconnects from Lila and Nino. Lila decides she cannot go on with her life, so she leaves Stefano and moves in with Nino. Elena travels to Pisa for her university studies. Antonio returns broken from him military service and looks for work.
Elena enjoys her life as a student in Pisa. When she is sick she reads the notebooks Lila gave her during her visit to Naples, and learns what Lila has gone through during the years.
Elena graduates university, meets a man from a nice family and returns to Naples. When she returns home she is told that Lila left home with her son. While in Pisa Elena wrote a novel based on her life.