A Winter in New York

After her mother’s death, Iris decides to relocate to the Big Apple. New York is the set of so many movies she and her mother watched as they ate vanilla gelato, which they made with their own secret recipe. When her New York BFF, Bobby, drags her to Little Italy for a street fair, Iris notices a shop that figured in many of her mother’s photos. Then she meets Gio, the man managing the shop, who is desperate to find the family’s lost gelato recipe. Though Iris suspects that her family recipe is the one he seeks, she decides not to share it but to work alongside him and recreate it. Love blossoms between the two, but the weight of Iris’s secrets could cause her to lose everything. Narrator Emma Appleton provides a solid performance of a young woman adrift, processing her grief while searching for her place in the world. Though the plot is somewhat formulaic, the swoony romance satisfies.