Miss Fallaci

Milan, 1956. Ambitious young journalist Oriana Fallaci, fed up with her role as the `cinema girl', makes a bet with her editor: if she manages to interview Marilyn Monroe, she will finally have the chance to write about politics.

After losing her baby, Oriana goes back to her turbulent relationship with Alfredo. However, on the night of her birthday, alone and desperate, she mixes alcohol with sleeping pills without realising what is about to happen.

Oriana, confined in a psychiatric clinic, remembers her past as a partisan relay girl in Nazi-occupied Florence. Fed up with the institution, she manages to get discharged and return home, but something in her is broken.

Oriana goes back to work at L'Europeo and is put on the spot by Carlo, who has become the new editor. She doesn't give up and, having finally gotten rid of Alfredo, she rediscovers her voice and desire to write.