Corpo a Corpo

Veronica Yoko Plebani is an athlete from the Triathlon Paralympic National Team. At the age of 25, she has a dream in her heart: the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She was only 15 when bacterial meningitis dragged her for months into a struggle between life and death that returned her a body marked forever. Graduate in political science with a thesis on athlete rights. Ambassador of undisputed body acceptance with thousands of followers from Instagram to newspaper covers. Pose, even naked, for photographers of international fame shattering every canon of beauty. Corpo a Corpo is the portrait of an athlete, but above all of a young woman who has not stopped in front of her limits. It is the unconscious emancipation of femininity that excludes judgment, that does not know normality or diversity. It’s an interrupted story once again. At 15 years old, a bacterium arrived to ruin Veronica’s plans. One step away from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, in fourth place among all the athletes in the world in its specialty, a virus has arrived. But you have a plan to fight back.