Maria Linde, a Jewish-Polish Nobel Prize winner, lives a bohemian, free-spirited life in her Tuscan villa. A loving mother and grandmother, she also fosters a secret flirtation with a much younger Egyptian man. After a terrorist attack in Rome, Maria refuses to share her neighbors’ hysterical fear and anti-immigrant sentiments. Instead she very publicly decries Europe’s eroding democracy but she is not prepared for the consequences of her attitude and comments.