Reluctant Tuscan The

Rising From The Mist in the sun-blushed hills of Tuscany is Il Piccolo Rustico a 300-year-old stone farmhouse that Nancy Doran dreams of lovingly restoring into an idlyllic home. All her husband Phil can see is a crumbling money pit that as far as dreams go is more of a nightmare.
Reluctantly leaving behind high -octane air-conditioned Los Angeles where he lives and works as a writer-producer Phil is uprooted to a strange country intoxicated by O sole mio virgin olive oil and oak-aged Chianti. The local village reveals itself to be a hive of seething passions secrets and age-old blood feuds and the newcomers find that life is not all strolls around town during the passagiato and relaxing under the awnings of picturesque cafes.
Beset by a rift of exasperating challenges - from the cunning tricks of the Pinatore family to an infuriating Byzantine Italian bureaucracy - it is only with an inspired touch of the 'Inner Italian' that Phil and Nancy finally manage to soften the hearts of their neighbours and are embraced by the community.