The First Assignment

Nena a girl from the south of Italy has to travel far from home to get her first job as a teacher She is sad not because she has to leave her mother and sister with whom everything is clear and sometimes difficult but because she is having a serious love affair with someone from her village to whom she is very committed a young uppermiddle class man who seems to sincerely feel the same They promise that nothing will change between them It is only until June and then she can ask for a transfer And so she leaves a little sad and a little curious about what is in store for her But what she finds is completely different from what she imagined