Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.

[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose her virginity. That's a mission easily accomplished, if that's the only mission. The story had to be more complicated than that. Because there is so little happening dramatically, there had to be something to keep you curious.

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.