before leaving, she goes to say good bye to Lila in the shoe shop, where she finds her with Nino, realizing they have resumed their affair. Lila becomes pregant, and decides to leave her husband to leave with Nino. She disappears from the neighborhood for twenty-one days. Marcello Solara asks Antonio, who is now working for him, to find her. Antonio finds the couple and beats up Nino, but does not tell Antonio, telling instead his childhood friends Enzo and Pasquale. Enzo helps Lila, taking her back to the neighborhood. Stefano is overjoyed that Lila is pregnant, not believing her when she says that the baby is not his, and the whole neighborhood decides to pretend that she was spending time with Lenù in Pisa. In the meanwhile, Lenù has a hard time with her studies in Pisa, because of her poverty and lack of cultural capital, and because of the prejudices of other students, who mock her Neapolitan accent. She has a relationship with Franco Mari. At the end of her studies, she begins a relationship with Pietro Airota, the son of a renowned professor. While preparing for her thesis, Lenù remains disturbed by her relation with Donato Sarratore, and writes about it on a notebook. One day, she receives a box with the possessions of her old schoolteacher, professor Oliviero, which includes The Blue Fairy, the book she had written with Lila when they were little girls, and recognizes in the book the heart of her writings. One day, she gives the notebook to Pietro, who gives him to his mother, Adela, who works as a book editor. To Lenù's surprise, Adela calls her to say that she wants to publish the tale as a book. Lila, in the meanwhile, has given birth to her son Gennaro (called Rino, like her brother). She spends a lot of time trying to educate the child, determined that he should have a better fate than the children of the neighborhood. Realizing that Stefano has been having an affair with Ada, and not being able to stand his violence anymore, she finally leaves him, and goes leave with Enzo in a working class neighborhood, San Giovanni a Teduccio. She starts working in a bologna factory that belonged to Bruno Soccavo. Lenù goes to visit her there, and finding her in awful conditons, gives her The Blue Fairy, which she throws in the