This classic suspense drama follows characters living in 1920s Italy during the rise of Benito Mussolini’s fascism. Set on the Italian Riviera in the 1920s, the series stars Natascha McElhone (Vagabond, Californication, Halo) as Bella Ainsworth, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist who moves to Italy to open a quintessentially English hotel in the breathtakingly beautiful town of Portofino. Mark Umbers (Home Fires, Mistresses, Collateral) plays Bella’s charming but dangerous aristocratic husband Cecil, and Anna Chancellor (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Tiny Times, Mapp & Lucia) plays the hotel’s most influential and difficult guest, Mrs. Latchmere.