Tea with Mussolini

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.

• hotel
• ambassador
• loss of loved one
• italy
• widow
• world war ii
• female friendship
• benito mussolini
• florence, italy
• expatriate
• 1940s
• 1930s