Beautiful Ruins

“It’s 1962, and we’re in Porto Vergogna – the sixth village and poor relation to the more famous Cinque Terre. We’re told it’s the smaller, remoter, less picturesque one, stuck in a crack in the rocks that everyone seems to have forgotten. Despite this, it’s where we find Pasquale Tursi trying to make a go of his family’s run-down pension at the hotel ‘Adequate View.’ It’s not going well.

Then, one day, a beautiful American actress unexpectedly sails in, in a dazzle of shards of sunlight, stealing Pasquale’s heart…”