Love, Italy and pasta are the indispensable ingredients for this summer’s tastiest romance.
Italy, 1964. Maria Domenica is the eldest daughter of Pepina and Erminio Carrozza, a family of farmers from the small village of San Giulio. At sixteen, Maria’s life is limited to her mother’s kitchen and Caffe Angeli, a place of conviviality, intense coffee and the famous ricotta sfolgliatelle.
Mary’s parents have high expectations for their beautiful firstborn, but she has other plans… among them, an escape to Rome. A year later, Maria is eight months pregnant and is forced to return to San Giulio, where she expects a wedding front. But Mary does not give up looking for a new life for himself and her daughter, Chiara, even if it means going against conventions and traditions, and quickly flees again, this time to Britain. Many years later, Chiara will return to San Giulio, where she discovers that the simple life she seeks is not as simple as it seems – especially with regard to the past.
Filled with fascinating characters, beautiful landscapes, smells and tempting flavors, Caffè Amore magnificently portrays the female universe, in a clear blink of an eye to works such as Joanne Harris’s Chocolate.