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Eighteen year old Irma Testa is Italy’s first female boxer to make it to the Olympics. It’s a remarkable outcome for a girl raised in one of the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of Naples.. The more Irma succeeds though, the more fragile she becomes. After a crushing defeat at the Games in Rio, she questions whether boxing is her future. She wants to chart her own path, but must first take a hard look at her personal life which she has avoided for so long.
Butterfly (2019) is a 1h 20min documentary feature film by Alessandro Cassigoli. Eighteen year old Irma Testa is Italy’s first female boxer to make it to the Olympics.
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