Based on the internationally bestselling neapolitan novels by elena ferrante, the critically acclaimed global smash hit returns for a second season'. '.strtoupper('l')ila and elena, now 16, are on the cusp of womanhood'. '.strtoupper('l')ila is just married but worries that she has lost her identity in taking her husband's name elena is a model student but acknowledges that while she no longer belongs in the neighbourhood she is yet to find her place in the outside world'. '.strtoupper('d')uring a holiday in ischia, the two girls reconnect with their childhood acquaintance nino, an encounter that will forever change the nature of their bond, propelling the girls onto two completely contrasting paths, threatening their close connection with jealousy and betrayal as they follow, lose and find each other again.