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
