Released:
2025-05-22

Overview:
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.

Director:
Mario Martone

Runtime:
1h 57min

Genre:
Drama, History

• Cast:
• 
  Valeria Golino
  as
  Goliarda Sapienza
• 
  Matilda De Angelis
  as
  Roberta
• 
  Elodie
  as
  Barbara
• 
  Corrado Fortuna
  as
  Angelo
• 
  Francesco Gheghi
  as
  Cameriere bar della stazione