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It is 1990 and 70-year-old novelist Tommy Mostyn thinks he is at the end of the road and that his writing life is over. He decides to spend one last holiday in the Italian city of Verona, a place where he thinks he found true happiness with Carla in the late summer of 1939 and just days before the outbreak of WW2. He sees his visit as a kind of summing up, a reassessment of a time in which he believes he experienced true happiness through love. Or did he? Tommy needs to know whether his memory is accurate and not a sham, a touched-up recollection that did not quite happen in the way he thinks. Tommy knows that Carla was a Jew and he believes that she died in a concentration camp during the war. How can he know that his visit to Verona will be much more than a summing up? What will he do with the discovery that Carla is still influencing his life 50 years after their affair?
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