Sibilla Aleramo's carefree childhood comes to an abrupt end when, at the age of seventeen, she falls in love with a worker from her father's glass factory, becomes pregnant unplanned and has to get married. Suddenly a mother and wife, she finds herself trapped in the patriarchal structures of the time - just like her own mother and all the women she knows. But instead of submitting to the expectations of her new role, she strives for freedom, self-determination and a life full of education and literature.

Sibilla Aleramo is a woman - and yet she captures the fate of an entire generation of women and describes authentically and with extraordinary intensity how her protagonist frees herself from the shackles of tradition and finds her own identity.

A Woman is not only a haunting portrait of Italian society at the turn of the century, but also a manifesto for equality in every sense of the word - and thus still inspires us today to think beyond the boundaries of our own circumstances.