Status Updates From The Girl from Lake Maggiore

The romance between the two main characters is starting when he starts to notice and admire her.

1943-Giulia Leone’s family owns a hotel in Italy and has taken in many Jewish refugees. When the German take over the city, they also take over the hotel, Imprison the Jewish people to one room, and billet German soldiers in their former rooms. Giulla sees that the only answer is for them to flee in an underground passageway under the hotel and go to the ocean. There, they must flee to Switzerland.

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