Witness to her marriage falling apart due to her husband’s infidelities, the timid, bourgeois Giulietta Boldrini (Masina), withdraws to the world of dreams. With spiritistic and psychoanalytical consultations, she commences in an existential search, of her self and meaning of her life—avoiding her exuberant and voluptuous neighbour Suzy, who is willing to introduce her to the orgiastic theatre of pleasures. Fellini’s wish, was to give Giulietta Masina, a female version of 8½: a monumental assortment of cinema and Jungian psychoanalysis. But as Freud left unanswered, the question “What does a woman desire?”… So Fellini leaves his heroine in suspension between (male) fantasies on love, sexuality and repulsion. Where does the iconographic and colourful, directorial delirium leave Giulietta? Emancipated or alone?