Nebol'shoy gorodok, zateryavshiysya sredi holmov Toskany, 1944 god. Stelle vsego chetyrnadcat', ona samaya yunaya uchastnica mestnogo Soprotivleniya. O svoey deyatel'nosti ona ne rasskazyvaet nikomu, dazhe roditelyam. Vmeste so starshim bratom Akille ona perepravlyaet soobshcheniya, proviziyu i oruzhie partizanam, chto skryvayutsya v holmah. S kazhdym dnem ugroza nad devushkoy sgushchaetsya, no ona dozhdetsya okonchaniya voyny v 1945-m. Dozhdetsya, chtoby ischeznut'. Spustya sem'desyat let v Toskanu priezzhaet nachinayushchaya pisatel'nica, sbezhavshaya ot neudachnogo braka, ot shotlandskoy hmari, ot samoy sebya. U Tori davnyaya svyaz' s Florenciey - v detstve ona chasto byvala zdes' s babushkoy, i seychas pobeg v Toskanu kazhetsya ey izbavleniem ot opostylevshey zhizni, no on okazyvaetsya ne proshchaniem s proshlym, a nachalom chego-to sovsem novogo. Odnako prezhde ey predstoit razobrat'sya v davney voennoy istorii, v centre kotoroy - yunaya svyaznaya Stella.