Richard Fleischer repeatedly turned down Dino De Laurentiis' overtures to direct the film. He ultimately relented when he realized that the best way to make the film was to shoot it straight and tell the story as truthfully as he could.
In an idyllic Tuscan town, Belvedere in Chianti, all the women are married or looking for the perfect husband, except Elisa, a single mother who runs Le Giuggiole vineyard. The return to the town of a childhood friend she had lost sight of for years turns her life upside down and reawakens feelings she thought had been gone forever.
The film tells the story of young Sara who, after the sudden death of her father, gives up her future as a jazz pianist in New York to face her family's past as an organic livestock farmer in the Pyrenees. An exotic mix of music, rural surroundings and family ties that create a story about the strength of going back to your roots.