
Two orphaned sisters from Australia arrive in postwar England chasing a future, but one luminous, unyielding love—misdirected, betrayed, and delayed—pulls their lives into collisions of class, ambition, and moral consequence that echo for decades.

One Italian summer, seventeen-year-old Elio thinks he can outwait desire—until a visiting American scholar turns every “later” into a dare, every silence into a confession, and every goodbye into something that keeps echoing for decades.

Two orphaned sisters from Australia arrive in postwar England chasing a future, but one luminous, unyielding love—misdirected, betrayed, and delayed—pulls their lives into collisions of class, ambition, and moral consequence that echo for decades.

One Italian summer, seventeen-year-old Elio thinks he can outwait desire—until a visiting American scholar turns every “later” into a dare, every silence into a confession, and every goodbye into something that keeps echoing for decades.