Eight women freely tell their truth about Luigi Pirandello, but above all, about themselves: his mother, his wet nurse, his fiancées, his wife, his daughter, and an actress. Ironic, even ruthless, they have desires, needs, knowledge, and some certainties. The setting is the theater, but also life itself.
On the ridge between representation and testimony, using archive footage, music, and live performance, Il gigante innamorato enters the cruel intimacy of the genius through the disarming sincerity of the female figures who nourished his art. From the unification of Italy to the 1930s, this docufiction is also a playful journey into the fashion, customs, and existential and material conditions of women within the family and society.