Celia Filipetto

Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear perspectives when she finds herself torn between the refinements and excesses of a divided Naples.

Once upon a time there were two girls, Lenù and Lila, who were born in 1944 in a poor neighborhood in the city of Naples. Lila married very young with the wealthiest man in the neighborhood and soon left him. Elena, on the other hand, has continued her studies and has even written a novel. Thus, at first sight, nothing unites the two friends anymore, but the neighborhood of Naples where they were girls still claims them, the old customs return them...

The lost girl puts an end to the story of two women who were born in the mid-twentieth century in Naples and since girls were sharing a peculiar friendship, with moments of doubt or absence, but always complicit. Lila and Lenù are now sweet and have taken different paths: Lenù left Naples to marry and become a successful writer in Milan. Only a love of youth that blooms again will return it to Naples, where Lila waits for her. Men, women, elpaisje,...