 Directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory, the film follows Elio Perlman, a precocious 17-year-old as he spends the summer of 1983 with his family in their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy.He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father.Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, romance blossoms between Elio and Oliver as they discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.