![]() ![]() Lila, a shoe repairman’s daughter, drops out to work but devours books and teaches herself Latin and Greek, mastering effortlessly what Lenù strains to achieve. Lenù’s parents keep her in school (an expense her mother resents). They’re two bright girls in a community that doesn’t know what to do with bright girls.Īs they get older, their lives diverge. Lila (Ludovica Nasti and Gaia Girace) is prodigiously smart, with a fierce charisma and a prophet’s coal-eyed intensity. Lenù (played by Elisa Del Genio as a girl, Margherita Mazzucco as a teenager) is studious and reserved, a people pleaser. They form an ardent bond their first year of school, in a dusty, low-rise neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. ![]() For newcomers, that is the story of Elena Greco, called Lenù, and Rafaella Cerullo, called Lila. For readers of the books, it is probably enough to know that the first season, which corresponds to the first of the four novels, sticks close to the source material. ![]()
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