Second Spring

While looking for new tenants for his seaside villa surrounded by a big garden Andrea Ricoli a 50years old architect meets Rossana a newly 40years old anaesthesiologist at the local hospital and married to Riccardo ten years younger than her hes an aspiring writer temporarily employed as a salesman at a local shoe store During an eventful New Years Eve Andrea introduces Riccardo to a Maghreb restaurant owner who is interested in restoring an attic apartment and his lovely sister Hikma Months go by Andrea discovers that Hikma is pregnant with Riccardos child while shes struggling with her oldfashioned fundamentalist brothers mentality He offers to help the couple and let them stay with him in his villa Teaching him how to care for his garden the young Hikma reminds Andrea of his wife Sofia who passed away right there four years earlier in unclear circumstances