Spend a year in Italy, drink wine, travel and meet new friends. This is what a trio of women spontaneously decide to do, refusing to live alone on the homestead. They withdraw their savings and rent an old stone house in Tuscany. Their neighbor, an American writer who is working on a biography of her close friend in the Tuscan countryside, narrates the adventures of the enthusiastic female travelers. The arrival of new residents pulls her away from work and she becomes a guide on their Tuscan adventure. All three women throw themselves into Italian life with gusto and pursue long-forgotten passions - with radical and unpredictable results. After guidebooks, a cookbook and personal narrative, Frances Mayes has written a novel that, like her previous books, recounts the culinary experiences and beauty of Italy, offering tips on sights, cities, food and drink. In this novel, she also managed to capture not only the smell of Italian markets and the taste of good wine, but also the power of female friendship and the desire for life as such.