The carefree childhood of Sibilla Aleramo comes to an abrupt end when, at seventeen, she falls in love with a worker from her father's glass factory, becomes unexpectedly pregnant, and has to marry. Suddenly a mother and wife, she finds herself trapped in the patriarchal structures of her time—just like her own mother and all the women she knows. However, instead of conforming 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, authentically and with extraordinary intensity, as her protagonist breaks free from the shackles of tradition and discovers her own identity.

"A Woman" is not only a poignant portrait of Italian society around the turn of the century but also a manifesto for equality in every sense—continuing to inspire today to think beyond the confines of one’s own circumstances.