Set against the picturesque backdrop of the Island of Ischia, off the Amalfi Coast, AND WHILE WE WERE HERE follows a young American writer named Jane who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when she accompanies her husband Leonard on a business trip. While escaping the mundanity of her comfortable marriage by delving deeper into adapting her grandmother's WWII stories into a memoir she stumbles into a romantic affair with a younger man who complicates her life even further.