In Italy, Eleanor and Reginald fell in love a dozen different ways over wines and adventures. In Washington, D.C., they've long since broken up and disappointed themselves and each other.Eleanor Stills is a music journalist working out of Washington, D.C. She's divorced, on the declining side of her twenties, and wondering if her career is really the dream she always thought it would be. Amidst this quarter-life crisis, Reginald Sly falls back into her life. He's now the frontman for a bizarre indy band, and seeing him reignites Eleanor's memories of a long summer spent in Italy. But Reg's memories of that summer are very different, cobbled together from truth and myth, like whimsical fairytales from a country that never was.As Eleanor writes about the band and Reg spins his tall tales, parallel yearnings are uncovered, and the two discover that they're both striving to make peace with how they live now.