One month after its release, the film was already the highest grossing Italian movie post-pandemic.
The film is an idea of Paola Cortellesi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Furio Andreotti and Giulia Calenda, based on the lives of women after the Italian campaign in World War II, inspired by Cortellesi's grandmother and great-grandmother life.
In his review, Screen International critic Allan Hunter paired the film to the classic Italian neorealism cinema, and described it as "an unashamed, old-fashioned melodrama [which] develops into a more considered tale of small victories on the road to female empowerment."
It is the 9th highest-grossing film of all time in Italy.