

117 minutes
5/22/2025
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.

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

Sylvia De Fanti
as Silvia

Stefano Dionisi
Aura Ghezzi
as Carcerata