Villa Coco

An aspiring archivist, determined to begin a “serious” life after an undistinguished undergraduate career, takes an unspecified job with a charismatic elderly Baronessa at her crumbling villa in the Tuscan hills. The Baronessa, known to her friends as Coco, is ninety-two, defiantly youthful, and naturally flamboyant. The young man becomes her all-purpose assistant, charged with cataloging the villa's extensive collection of art and antiques amid a chaotic, colorful milieu of gin-swilling princesses, incomprehensible handymen, roaming boarhunters, nuns, and other local characters. As he inventories the collection he notices objects vanishing from right under his nose, and despite himself he tumbles into an affair with a married man that complicates his future plans. When Coco loses someone close to her, he becomes an unwitting accomplice in the Baronessa’s great and final plan to locate the love of her life and be reunited before it's too late.