It stars Vanessa Kirby, David Ajala, Simon Brickner, Annika Wahlsten, Annabel Hoffman, and Maya Hawke.

A writer loses her memory in New York City, and attempting to find her way home, she connects with a group of strangers in conversations, real and imagined.

Opening on the protagonist going with her partner to a party with young people in NYC, the scene then cuts to daytime.

At a fast food restaurant, the older version of herself had mentioned she is writing a novel based on ideas she gets from them, so they hand her the check.

She thinks it's a bad idea as she prefers to preserve the memory, implying it would needlessly stir things.

Now married, Alina alludes to some mental difficulties she had passed through, which she believes her husband fears may return.

In March 2019, it was announced Vanessa Kirby had joined the cast of the film, with Adam Leon directing from a screenplay he wrote.

[9] In a positive review, Rolling Stone called the film, "Unforgettable from the jump," features a "raw, guileless, egoless performance" from Vanessa Kirby, and that it "may be the most immersive memory loss movie of all time.

"[10] The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Italian Studies is a unique curio of a film, a free sketch of time and place melting into a singular subjective experience that asks, “Does memory matter?”[11] In a mixed review, Variety wrote that "Adam Leon’s minor-key, jaggedly structured indie isn't concerned with the specific whens, hows and whys of Alina’s out-of-nowhere amnesia, but with the hazy in-the-moment sensation of being struck with it, the sensation of stumbling for the lightswitch in your own mind.

That's a nebulous-sounding dramatic proposition, though as performed by a nervy, live-wire Vanessa Kirby, it becomes a tensely compelling one.