Scripted

Rai 1 will air on Monday, February 10 at 9.25pm The Story of a New Name. This is the second part of a trilogy that began with “My Brilliant Friend.”
Both series are based on Elena Ferrante's novels set in Naples, trace the friendship between Lila Cerullo and Elena Greco, two girls who become two different women.
The novel begins with Elena throwing Lila’s notebooks into the Arno after Lila has entrusted her lifetime of writing to her best friend. About to publish a novel and graduate from Pisa’s prestigious Scuola Normale Superiore, 22-year-old Elena can’t bear to read of Lila’s love affair with Nino Sarratore, the young man she believes Lila stole from her. But the act of sabotage has deeper, darker roots. Elena has always feared that Lila, although poorly educated and stuck in Naples, is more brilliant than she, that Lila is the real writer. These two love each other ferociously, but each burns with a desire to outdo the other, sometimes killing what is best in her soul mate.

My Brilliant Friend – The Story of a New Name” is a The Apartment and Wildside (both Italian units of Fremantle) and Fandango production, produced by Mieli, Mario Gianani and Domenico Procacci in collaboration with Rai Fiction and HBO Entertainment and in co-production with Mowe and Umedia.

photo @Eduardo Castaldo