Elena Greco

It's incredibly dense.

It chronicles the deeply complex, often competitive, but inextricably linked lifelong friendship between two women, Elena Greco and Raffaella Cirillo, known as Lila.

It tracks their lives from their childhood in a remarkably poor, violent, mob-controlled neighborhood in post-war Naples and follows them through decades.

Decades of navigating education, political upheaval, disastrous marriages, and the suffocating structures of Italian social class.