Plot Synopsis

Created by Ivan Cotroneo and Monica Rametta, THE LIFE YOU WANTED is a one-hour drama series that centers on Gloria, who is finally happy after transitioning and settling down -- until longtime friend Marina reappears with disrupting news and throws her world into chaos. Gloria believes that she has found happiness in Lecce, where she founded a small travel agency and fell in love with Ernesto, but one day her life is turned upside down by the arrival of Marina, a friend from her University days in Naples, before Gloria began her transition path. Marina brings along Andrea and Arianna, her children from two different partners, and is pregnant with a third, whose father is Pietro, a young man with a passionate and perhaps even dangerous temper. Gloria would prefer not to reconnect with Marina, since she reminds her of a part of her life she would like to forget. However, Marina hides many secrets and soon Sergio, Arianna's father, will also arrive on the scene, a resolute man who immediately proves to be very wary of Gloria. For her, the time has arrived to come to terms with "the life she wanted," her past and her future, to discover that happiness sometimes comes in unexpected forms and that love is the only force capable of making life worth living. All six episodes of THE LIFE YOU WANTED dropped on Wednesday, May 29, 2023 on Netflix.