My Brilliant Friend

Newly-married Lila grows profoundly resentful of her husband and finds new ways to carry on seeing Elena.

After a photo of Lila at her wedding is exhibited, admiration and gossip pervades among many in and outside the neighborhood.

Lila continues to hold a grudge against Stefano as the shoe shop opens and she goes to work at his new grocery store.

Elena agrees to a holiday in Ischia with Lila, knowing that Nino Sarratore will also be on the island.

On Ischia, an agonizing rift begins to form between Elena and Lila.

Elena plunges headfirst into her academic future, while Lila tackles problems of an entirely different nature.

In reading Lila's diaries, Elena, now an accomplished college student, realizes how much her friend's new role has changed her.

Elena pens her first novel, which she entrusts to her new fiance, before returning to Naples to find Lila.