A film version of a play Fassbinder directed in Hamburg, Clare Booth Luce's The Women. It gave Fassbinder an opportunity to indulge his passion for working with women - there are forty women in the play and no men. The play dates from the 1930s, and Fassbinder was accused by the critics of being anti-women (a frequent criticism of late). As usual, he chose to work against the text, and from this has constructed an entertaining and engaging play about love between upper-class women with nothing better to do than sneer at others when things go wrong with their lives and loves.
A woman is kidnapped by a family who claim that she is their missing daughter. She must impersonate this other woman in order to survive while she tries to find a way out of this nightmare.
In the film, Baker plays a teen girl named Tori whose social media-centered life causes her debilitating anxiety. When she refuses to go to school, her concerned mother sends her to stay with her grandfather Benoit (Roy Dupuis) in a remote wilderness cabin. Benoit proceeds to refocus her life on survival skills, until a crisis finds Tori quite literally fighting for her life.
Maddalena finally seems to have found her place: she is an acclaimed writer, happily engaged to Vanni a loving, brilliant publisher. But when Valentina reappears, she finds herself questioning everything.