In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
In the suburbs of Rome two very different souls intersect. One is the son of a restaurant owner who disappeared with his lover. The other is a young mysterious woman who has arrived from China in search of her missing sister.
A fragmented nocturnal tale of four young adults in a decadent Rome. Romance and brutality, sweetness and suffering, music and silence as they realize that they have embarked on a path in life that has now reached a dead end.
