A cataclysmic event serves as the backdrop for a passionate affair between two individuals torn between desire and the constraints of their circumstances.
In an idyllic Tuscan town, Belvedere in Chianti, all the women are married or looking for the perfect husband, except Elisa, a single mother who runs Le Giuggiole vineyard. The return to the town of a childhood friend she had lost sight of for years turns her life upside down and reawakens feelings she thought had been gone forever.