Scripted series
Free Women
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Free Women actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Free Women reads strongest on Serialized, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
Christmas 1942. Mario Tobino, a psychiatrist back from the war, starts working in the Magliano Mental Hospital for women. The same night, young Margherita makes a spectacle on the Duomo's parvis, and her husband Filippo decides to have her sectioned. Unexpectedly Mario encounters Paola, the woman he has always loved, as she attempts fixing a tire by the roadside.
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