My Brilliant Friend: Complete Series

From acclaimed Italian director Saverio Costanzo comes the much-anticipated drama series adaptation of My Brilliant Friend, following the friendship of two young girls navigating childhood and adolescence in an Italy on the verge of change. The HBO series tells the story of Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman who discovers the most important friend in her life, Raffaella "Lila" Cerullo, seems to have disappeared without a trace. An author immersed in a house full of books, Elena starts writing the story of her and Lila's tempestuous friendship, starting from the point when they met during their first year of primary school in 1950. My Brilliant Friend finds Elena trying to describe the mystery of Lila, her "brilliant friend" who is, in a way, her worst enemy.