All the books by Elena Ferrante adapted to cinema and television, ranked

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.

A woman, while on a summer holiday, finds herself becoming obsessed with another woman and her daughter, prompting memories of her own early motherhood to come back and unravel her.

Delia, a Neapolitan artist who has lived for many years in Bologna, returns to Naples after the sudden death of her mother, who apparently committed suicide by drowning. She doesn’t believe the official verdict of suicide, convinced that her mother’s exuberance, vivacity and existential positivity, which she remembers very well, would never have led her to do such a thing. She therefore begins to investigate her mother’s recent past.

Olga, literary translator, wife and mother of two is suddenly abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. With this she enters into a painful lapse that turns into despair that brings her to sleep and food deprivation. She encounters a neighbour musician that moves something in her. After a descent into hell and eventual rise from despair, Olga lives an insight that makes her realize that she was not losing her mind for the lost love.

Naples is divided into two parts: the Naples of the heights, which wears a mask of sophistication, and the Naples of the depths, a land of excess and vulgarity. A girl is searching for her true reflection in this divided Naples.