The goddess of love and a timeless female icon reveals the mystery of desire in a journey through time and space, to the roots of literature, women’s imagination and love.

A journey to the Classical Mediterranean – Sicily, Rome, Troy, Trebizond, Cyprus, Athens, Corinth, Ischia, Milos and Kythira – to follow the feats of Aphrodite, the most ancient among goddesses, born after Uranuses’s genitals were tossed into the sea off the coast of Kythira. The story of her many love affairs and those she created with her extraordinary power, which was also made up of magical items, like the enchanted belt that could make any woman who wore it alluring and irresistible.

Helen of Troy: the mythological heroine whose tale has always been told by men speaks up and reveals the story of her life.

A reflection on what it is to carry the burden of beauty for a woman, in the past as well as in the present day.

Helen, the daughter of Zeus and Leda, born from a swan’s egg, is the most beautiful woman in the world, the most desired in all Greece. All the heroes of the peninsula – from Ulysses to Ajax – appear before her father to ask for her hand in marriage. But she is also the epitomy of treachery: she left her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta, and ran away with Paris, a foreigner, to live in Troy. The Trojan war, much written about in literature, broke out because of her.

“There are many rumours about me. All kinds of contradictory things are said about me: some people think I am the worst among women, the cause of multiple damage, while others claim I am pure and innocent, splendid prey for men and a useful pawn in the hands of the gods. And then there are those who imply that it’s all wrong and that I am actually a goddess. What should you believe? What’s the truth? That’s why I’ve come from eternity to tell you about myself, firsthand.”