Alice, the daughter of a young English biologist and of a music teacher, is a prodigy pianist born in Sicily. She was conceived soon after an accident occurred to her father in his laboratory.
Our protagonist ages very quickly: she’s four, looks twenty, cannot go to school, and has to learn reading and writing at home from her aunt, an English literature teacher.
Alice performs in the most important Italian theatres and succeeds in stopping the fast running of her time by playing music: in the following six years she does not age at all.
One day after a concert at the Greek Theatre in Taormina she meets and falls madly in love with William, a young English journalist.
That big love and her daughter’s birth will condition the remaining part of her life.