"On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village, and a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II, centuries of earthquakes, landslides and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. Only ten residents remain, including the widows Serafino: three eccentric sisters and their steely centenarian mother. They live quietly in their medieval villa. Then their nephew and grandson, Hugh, a historian, returns. Elisa Tomassi arrives and asserts that the family patriarch, Aldo Serafino, a resistance fighter whom her own family harboured, gave them the cottage of Hugh's childhood summers to them in gratitude. Like so many threads of history, this revelation unravels a secret-- a betrayal, a disappearance and an unspeakable act of violence-- that has impacted Valetto across generations. Who will answer for the crimes of the past?" -- Adapted from jacket