Martina
Michelotti

CÖR is a queer romance coming-of-age novel with a decadent atmosphere, inspired by music and literature and set in the magical atmosphere of the Trebbia Valley. Rosa is seventeen years old, has a passion for books and baking, and a family that has never recovered from the death of her brother Ishmael. Suddenly, the majestic Villa Artemisia that she has always admired from the outside is inhabited again: this is the beginning of a different summer that will take Rosa into the arms of Isis, exploring her sexual orientation and tasting the feeling of love in its various forms. As her family falls apart because of her father’s betrayal, on this journey of art, literature, music and poetry among the villas, castles and landscapes of her land, Rosa will unravel the riddles about her brother’s true identity, immerse herself in her land’s history of resistance and question her own identity, in the delicate metamorphosis from girl to woman, until she discovers what she really wants from the future.