Production Companies

Touchstone Pictures, Timnick Films, Blue Gardenia Productions

Overview

"Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one."

Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to piece her life back together in unexpected ways.