[Machine Translation] Lira and I met at elementary school. Lira was rebellious, arrogant, and skinny. But Lilla is a bright girl with a brilliant mind. Naples in the 1950s. In the sometimes violent downtown, the two girls become friends, and grow up to adulthood while hurling jealousies and longings at each other. Set in postwar Italian society, this international bestseller depicts the complex bond between the fierce and uninhibited Lilla and the book-loving Elena.