[2] As the name implies the setting of the series took place in Strada Stretta, a historic street in Valletta, the capital of Malta.

[3] The series takes the viewers to the social and historical realities of 1957, with a plot based on the incidents recorded on a diary that was found in 2015 during refurbishing works on a pub in the eponymous street.

[8] However, when she finds herself stranded and abandoned in Valletta she befriends Lilly, a bubbly young barmaid who works and lives in the street, who hosts her in return of giving her reading and writing lessons.

We meet many other personalities, real or fictitious who take us back to this cultural and musical mecca.

[9][10][11][12] The series is mainly set in Strada Stretta and Casa Rocca Piccola in Valletta, and other locations in Malta, such as Villa Blye in Paola.