Madame Bovary is the story of Emma, a beautiful, simple girl in the French countryside, who dreams of a utopian life, like the one described in romantic books, full of intense emotions, luxuries, passions, and fiery loves.

However, her marriage to Charles Bovary, who is extremely devoted and gentle but boring to her, will prove to be anything but ideal and will plunge her into the boredom and tedium of a mundane and meaningless life, as dictated by the social conventions and conservative ideas of the hypocritical countryside.

Emma will chase the chimera, the dream, her fantasies of a great love in people who are, however, creations of the world she despises and detests. But when the masks fall and she sees the nakedness and poverty of their souls, which path will she follow to discover her personal truth?

Relentless as a tragedy, violent as a vision, biting as a comedy, the commonplace theme of adultery acquires profoundly human dimensions in Flaubert's work. Corrosive and groundbreaking, this masterful naturalistic novel revolutionized the writing style of the time, clashed with the forms of romanticism, and, with its rigid objectivity, marked the beginning of a new era in literature.