 Semi-autobiographical tale from the early life of director Franco Zeffirelli. An illegitimate child (Charlie Lucas as a boy, Baird Wallace as the teen) is raised by an Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) in pre-WWII Fascist Italy, part of an English community in Florence presided over by a diplomat s widow (Maggie Smith). Cher plays a wealthy American collector of modern art who visits these "Scorpioni" on occasion.