Naples 1943. Luisa Giordano has faced many losses: her mother to a deadly illness the man she loved to the Nazis her unborn child at the hands of her husband. All Luisa has left is her voice and when she learns her husband is colluding with the enemy she knows she must use it to fuel the women of Naples with fire. Los Angeles 1962. Hollywood starlet Lola Hart has come a long way from the backstreets of Naples the glamorous parties a way to dull past pains. When she is offered the role of a lifetime portraying a heroine of the Italian resistance she knows returning home means confronting old ghosts. But seeking out the story behind the film she realises there are many in Naples with secrets and that the woman she is to play held the greatest one of all. . .