Dante talks in La vita nova about "Colore D'amore", without saying what color love may have in his eyes. Perhaps he wanted to say that love has a lot of colors.
While searching for the girl of his dreams in the City of Eternity, he has to cross many streets and meet many other girls in order to to meet her again.
Coming back to Rome a girl remembers her Sicilian holidays, her first great love and her confrontation with the tragic death of her friends in a terrorist attack.
For him it was just an affair, for her it was the love of her life. And now she is in Rome to see him, to put pressure on him, to threaten with suicide...