New Italian docudrama series on RAI, based on an autobiographical 1953 novel, “Le libere donne di Magliano,” by the psychiatrist Mario Tobino.
Set in Tuscany during the Second World War, it follows psychiatrist Mario Tobino, as he hallenges the repressive rules of a women’s asylum, striving to safeguard the dignity of his patients. Some of the women have found solace in madness as the only form of freedom they can aspire to, while others have been unjustly locked up simply because they dared to assert their free spirit. Mario lives inside the asylum, confronting and sometimes clashing with the differing approaches of his colleagues. Mario’s life takes an unexpected turn when Margherita Lenzi (Grace Kicaj) arrives at the asylum. She is a beautiful young heiress locked up in the hospital by her husband against her will, but is she really as crazy as they say, or simply the victim of a violent man? Mario begins a gripping search for the truth.
Grace Kicaj
Marta Bulgherini
I looked up Marta Bulgherini to see whether she was some kind of world-class gymnast, but she turned out to be an actress, albeit one who obviously possesses what Liam Neeson impersonators would call “a very particular set of skills”



