An Australian teenage girl in New York discovers love and a darker side to her Italian heritage.
When Australian-Italian teenager Elsie Ianelli reluctantly relocates to New York City, she finds herself being rescued from a near coffee related disaster, by handsome college student Mark Viera. With Mark’s help she begins experiencing the glamorous, fast-paced, American version of being Italian and their friendship quickly grows into something deeper than either of them could have anticipated.
If only the rest of her life was as perfect.
Elsie’s mother Lena is becoming a workaholic as she builds her mysterious new business venture and her younger brother Nick has been taken under the wing of a local businessman that Elsie doesn’t entirely trust. When she is repeatedly targeted by the school "it" girl and resident bully at her new school, Elsie feels the only thing stopping her from catching the next plane back to Melbourne, is her growing relationship with Mark.
When a secret in Mark’s family threatens their life together, more cracks start to appear in her fragile new world. But what Elsie doesn’t realise, is her own family has secrets that could be just as devastating to her and Mark’s future. Secrets, which could also be deadly...