Is Zoë Saldaña’s sad novel based on a true story?

One of Netflix’s new romance plots, fresh start it has proven to be a success among the platform’s subscribers and, gaining more and more fans, it has not left the Top 10 of streaming.

The plot promises a lot of drama when it tells the story of Amy Wheeler, an American girl who is doing her first exchange in Italy. Amy’s life changes as soon as she meets chef Lino and soon falls in love with him.

However, the love between Lino and Amy has a big barrier: as Lino’s health begins to decline, the couple, as well as their families, must unite and force to deal with an unhappy ending.

However, while it proved to be a sensitive and moving story, fresh start left a flea behind the ear of many fans, who question whether the series is inspired by any real case.

Is Restart a true story?

Perhaps this doubt is driven by the not so uncommon stories of couples who meet by chance, far from their homes, fall in love and end up separated or traumatized by a serious illness.

But at the end of the day, the story of the series is real and many of its scenes and dialogue actually happened in real life. the script of fresh start is inspired by the memoir From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Homeby writer Tembi Lock.

In her book, Lock explores her version of a romance that was meant to last a lifetime, recounting her love story with Saro Gullo.

Just like in the series, Gullo was a chef. The cook, however, was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer and died in 2012. According to the author herself, her book is a love letter to her deceased husband.

For Netflix, the story of Tembi Lock was adapted by her sister, Attica Locke, who gave dimension to how the facts of the books were brought to the small screen.

According to Attica, “about 20%” of the scenes in the series are the same, or very similar to events in Tembi’s life. The producer also stated that some takes of fresh start 🇧🇷are [como] exact mirror images of what really happened🇧🇷 with people and objects placed that resembled the real environment.

fresh start is now available on Netflix.

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