Melissa is a sweet, innocent and vulnerable sixteen-year-old Sicilian girl on the brink of self-discovery. Like most teenagers, she feels isolated from her parents - her father always travelling, and her mother is totally absorbed in her own world, oblivious to her daughter's anxiety about becoming a woman.
Then Melissa discovers sex. Shockingly initiated into a new world far from the wonderful and transcendent experience she anticipated, her brutal and humiliating induction into adulthood shatters her illusions above love.
Determined to uncover the mystery of her own burgeoning sexual nature, Melissa decides to educate herself fully. But her decadent behaviour, rather than bringing enlightenment, only increases her heartache and confusion until a tragic event shocks her into coming to terms with what it ultimately means to be a woman.
More than 2 million copies of Melissa Panarello's racy teen memoir, "100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed," have been sold in 30 countries, detailing the exploits of a 16-year-old Sicilian high-school girl who uses daring sex to combat loneliness and parental neglect. MELLISSA P, freely based on this book, is sure to raise a few eyebrows.