Oriana Fallaci is considered to be the most influential and controversial Italian female journalist of the 20th century. She led an extraordinary and remarkable life, documenting and exploring the world with the goal of seeking truth, in a society mainly dominated by male figures.

Born in 1929 in Florence to working-class parents, Fallaci started her life in the middle of the fascist regime and soon became a part of the underground resistance movement against Nazism, guided by her father. The indistinguishable temper that characterized Oriana Fallaci may have formed during her early years, growing up in a society oppressed by a dictatorship and fighting for freedom along with her family.