The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.
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Virna Lisi as Olga
Margherita Buy as Olga da giovane
Galatea Ranzi as Ilaria
Massimo Ghini as Augusto
Tchéky Karyo as Ernesto
Valentina Chico as Marta
Lavinia Guglielman as Marta da bambina
Valeria Sabel as Elsa Razman
Luigi Diberti as padre di Olga
Anna Teresa Rossini as madre di Olga
Maria Grazia Bon as
Anna Teresa Rossini as
Valeria Sabel as
Stefania Graziosi as
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