Veils of Smoke

Ilaria waits. Waits for her mind to come to a decision which will change the course of her life forever. Should she go or stay?

There is a choice to be made, and as she deliberates Ilaria recalls the intense, hot summer at the Pizzeria Sofia in Vasto, where Filippo, the chef, made her a proposition she found hard to refuse. A secret. An affair.

But as summer fades and autumn arrives, guilt, fear, and the weight of spectres from the past and present threaten to expose the secret and what lies beneath it…



Smoke is a screen. A veil. But how long can it truly hide a scandalous affair?