Venice, 1353. For years Rolandina Ronchaia, a young woman, has been walking around Rialto with her baskets of eggs to sell. But being a street vendor is not enough to survive, much less to realize the dream of opening a shop of her own. That's why she's also a prostitute.
Despite this, being beautiful, kind, and always available to help neighbors, she is loved and respected. Then one day a complaint for sodomy arrives and the suspicion arises that the young woman is not really a woman.
Thus began a process that is an ordeal, because even in secular and enlightened Venice sodomy is a crime, even between male and female. When it turns out that exactly she is not, they will have no mercy. And for Rolandina, a real character, probably the first documented transgender in the Christian West, it is the end.
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