Anna arrives in Tuscany to stay with her old school friend Verena and her family in their rented villa in San Fabiano.

She joins in with their mild hedonism, even promising not to tell their parents about their marijuana smoking and a drug and drink-fuelled accident in a borrowed car.

The cast lived in the house that the characters rent on the San Fabiano Estate, even sleeping in the bedrooms used in the film.

The site's critics consensus reads: "An emotional and astutely accomplished feature debut from TV director Joanna Hogg, with strong performances and impressive direction throughout.

"[6] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generaly favourable reviews".

[9] Writing in The Sunday Times, Bryan Appleyard called it 'radical' for portraying a group of British middle class characters "simply as another tribe, one with its own customs, failings, virtues and, above all, human, all too human, anguish...In terms both of style and content, this is a radical and brilliant film that will, if there is any justice, come to be seen as a turning point for British cinema".