Childless and in a troubled marriage, 40-year-old Anna spends her summer holidays with a school friend and her family in a village in Tuscany. Her isolation grows as she witnesses the family’s routines. Taking refuge with the teenagers, she becomes caught up in the growing sexual tension between her and the couple's eldest son. Joanna Hogg's first feature film debuted themes that return again and again in her filmography — female identity, the dramas of upper middle class family life, and the conflicts generated by sharply contrasting personalities.