This film brings us face-to-face with Goliarda Sapienza, the cult author of The Art of Joy, and her rebellious heroine Modesta, to reveal the revolutionary, subversive and even scandalous charge of this unmissable masterpiece of 20th-century literature, rejected for almost thirty years by Italian publishers and finally published in France, ten years after her death.
The trajectories of these two desiring women intertwine towards the same emancipating power: the joy of writing one's own life.

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