It's the summer of 1983,and precocious 17- year-old elio periman is spending the days with his family at their 17 th-century villa in lombardy,italy.he soon meets oliver,a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for elio's father a mid the sun -drenched splendor of their surroundings,elio and oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.