Antonia is the portrait of an artist. Antonia Pozzi writes secretly, not knowing she is destined to become one of the 20th century’s major Italian poets. We meet a 16-year-old girl in 1920s Milan, in the school she attends, the Manzoni; she looks like an ordinary girl, but her gaze investigates the world around her with an intimate, raw intensity. Starting from an impossible love affair with her former teacher, we witness her passions, inspirations, torments, and how they all transform from reality to the poetic – in her face, in her body, in the photographs she takes, and the pages she writes. From her parents’ bourgeois Milan flat to the city streets, to the villa at Pasturo, to the mountaintop that we see her climb, and over the last ten years of her life, we experience with her, we meet the people who touched her most deeply or hurt her: lovers, friends, teachers, strangers. Some of them are close to her, but Antonia is walking that fine line between art and life. She goes beyond it, and writes: “Now you accept you’re a poet.”