In 1348, as the Black Death ravages Florence, a number of nobles and their servants retreat to the countryside Villa Santa. As they try to wait out the plague in the hills of Tuscany with wine and sex, the group eventually must fight for their survival. In August 2022, Netflix announced that it had ordered a television series loosely inspired by the 14th-century short-story collection The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. The series is set to be released on Netflix on July 25, 2024.
As the Black Death ravages Florence, a number of nobles and their servants retreat to the countryside Villa Santa. They try to wait out the plague in the hills of Tuscany with wine and sex. The group eventually must fight for their survival.