Summary
Lorenzo Marone: Everything will be perfect
Andrea Scott's life is anything but perfect, especially when it comes to family. Forty-year-old and single who still stubbornly persists in his immaturity, Andrea has always preferred to stay away from his relatives: from his father Libero, a former ship captain from Procida, who moved to Naples with his children after his wife's death, and from his sister Marina, an anxious and control-obsessed mother of two. When family obligations force Marina to travel and leave her seriously ill father at home, Andrea takes the helm. It is also the beginning of an adventurous weekend during which Marina's smoking ban will be just one of many rules broken. Followed by a "terrible dachshund" who snarls and sleeps, Andrea, forced to care for his eighty-year-old father who has no intention of being treated as an invalid, lands on Procida, returning after many years to the place of his childhood, to the beach with black volcanic sand that was the background of his first love joys and disappointments, among colorful houses eroded by salt. In these contrasts, in this imperfect perfection that brings unhealed wounds to the surface, but also memories of infinite tenderness, lulled by the lemon-scented breeze, Andrea will find balance.
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