An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

Francesco and Claudia are best friends. They're inseparable and tell each other everything, until another man enters the picture stealing Claudia's heart. Francesco then realizes that friendship between man and woman is a complicated thing.

In 1943, an Italian American fighter pilot is hidden for his own safety in an olive farm in Salento, Italy. He begins to fall in love with the farmer's daughter and starts to understand the culture of his new home through its traditional dance, the pizzicata.