Édouard Louis tells the unflinching and loving story of his mother in "The Freedom of a Woman." It is the tale of a woman's liberation. "My mother fought her entire life against poverty and male violence." One day, Édouard Louis' mother simply got up and left. She left the area, away from her second husband, who drank like the first and humiliated her. Édouard Louis vividly and relentlessly recounts the desire to have a different mother as a child, and the immense joy of witnessing her today as a liberated and happy woman.