Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza commits a desperate theft that costs her her reputation and social position. Incarcerated in Italy’s largest female prison, she finds herself living alongside thieves, junkies, sex workers and revolutionaries. After her release, she continues to meet with these women and over the course of a sweltering summer, a life-changing relationship flowers – a relationship that will reawaken her the desire to live and to write.
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Valeria Golino as Goliarda Sapienza
Matilda De Angelis as Roberta
Elodie as Barbara
Corrado Fortuna as Angelo
Francesco Gheghi as Cameriere bar della stazione
Antonio Gerardi as Albert
Carolina Rosi as Amica derubata
Daphne Scoccia as "James Dean"
Francesco Siciliano as Editore
Sonia Zhou as Suzie Wong
Ondina Quadri as Guardia
Paola Pace as Pizzi
Luisa De Santis as Trasteverina
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