Tanya

Beatriz Portinari is not only the name of the inspiring muse of Dante Alighieri, but also the pseudonym with which the Platense writer Aurora Venturini was presented in 2007 to the Nueva Novela contest, organized by the newspaper Página 12, in which she won the grand prize for their work The bonuses. Full of mischief and grace, vitality and mystery, with great character and lucidity, this woman who throughout her ninety-one years never stopped writing, had a life totally linked to the literature and history of the twentieth century: she knew , was a friend and worked with Eva Perón in a minority center; in his exile he became associated with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, among others; and received a prize from Jorge Luis Borges, among many other things.

Behind a three-meter-high wall, crimes of the imagination are concealed. This film is presented as a great fable within another to accompany women sectioned in a neuropsychiatric hospital who present themselves as artists, poets, and gardeners. Setting aside diagnoses and scientific knowledge about madness, we will accompany the imagination of women diagnosed as alienated to release them randomly from their own poetry.