In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life.

A research on the difficult psychological dynamics found in the so-called Stockholm Syndrome within the Nazi concentration camps, precisely within the sections of prostitution blocks that were not even mentioned in the sad album of the history of the Shoah.