We Want Roses Too

The film looks again at recent events from a female point of view through the firsthand accounts provided by the diaries of three women Rather than focusing on the alleged objectivity of facts the film gives space to a chorus of voices that narrate those events in first person visually supported by archival footage of the period drawn from the most varied sources institutional public militant and private Anita Teresa and Valentina come from different Italian regions and different social backgrounds but share the same feelings they no longer feel as part of a society based on the patriarchal family on the power of husbands and on the supremacy of males which requires them to be efficient mothers obedient wives and virtuous daughters