The Italian playwright and Nobel laureate Dario Fo tells the story of a strong woman. Dario Fo's novel heroine Christina of Sweden is an "impossible queen": highly educated, rebellious, and unpredictable. She refuses to marry, has affairs, and corresponds with intellectuals like Blaise Pascal and Molière. After her abdication in 1654, she moves to Rome and becomes an important patron of science and art. Using historical evidence and chronicles, Dario Fo narrates the life of a self-assured woman who breaks the conventions of her time, reinventing her in the process.