Out of a Season

At the seaside town of Rimini, Italy, thirteen-year-old Nicole Steiner, vacationing with her parents, meets a charming young man of vague background and vague intentions. Dario Ventura, who introduces himself as a count, becomes a constant guest of the Steiners. Nicole soon forgets her girlhood pastimes for hours spent in his company.
For the next three years, Dario is the focal point of Nicoles’s life. Dario is, in essence, the catalyst who so disrupts the members of the Steiner family that they are compelled to reevaluate themselves and their feelings for one another.