Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci released I dance alone in 1996. I Stealing Beauty is a film about Lucy Harmon, a young woman who is trying to discover the identity of her biological father and losing her virginity in Italy after her mother's suicide. This film is a coming-of-age story, which lends itself to social psychology concepts, such as the formation of the self, relationships, and the underlying patterns needed to form personal identity and have sexual relationships. The purpose of this article is to describe and evaluate relevant psychological theories about how Lucy's search for a biological father and a suitor worthy of her physical affection affects her identity. To understand the context of the film, a brief summary of the events will be provided. be given. After the suicide of her poet mother, nineteen-year-old American Lucy Harmon travels to the Tuscan countryside to spend time at the Italian house of her mother's old friends. The Irish sculptor Ian, his British wife Diana, the Italian columnist Noemi, the dying playwright Alex and the Frenchman Monsieur Guillaume live in the house. Diana's daughter Miranda is visiting for the holidays, along with her boyfriend Richard. Lucy intends to know the identity of her biological father and hopes to lose her virginity to Niccolò Donati, who she met four years earlier and was the first boy she kissed. Lucy then meets Carlo Lisca, a former war correspondent, who she thinks might be her biological father. With Alex, he discusses the cryptic poem left by his mother and what he wants from the trip. Lucy overhears the adults discussing boys they could help her meet, which upsets her. Lucy is on the phone booking tickets home when Diana's son Christopher arrives from Turke... middle of paper... tested negative. Lucy therefore considers herself less experienced and experiences humiliation from her encounters. We thus see how Lucy's search for her biological father and a suitor worthy of her physical affection affects her identity. Lucy wants to satisfy her curiosity about her and her mother's past by finding out who her biological father is, which forces her to revise her self-schema. His self-schema is also most significantly influenced by his search for his first sexual partner. Lucy's hopes, dreams, and past experiences help her embark on a meaningful first sexual encounter. Her experiences reflect the findings observed in studies of virgins and their attitudes toward losing their virginity. The environment also plays a role in her feeling valued as a virgin, which impacts her self-perception and actions taken to lose her virginity.