Spearhead of Parma culture, Isa Guastalla (1933-2023) talks about herself, before her sudden death, in a series of interviews that today reveal themselves to be precious historical sources at the center of a documentary project accompanied by unpublished images and documents that crown a long and detailed work of literary, historical-artistic and archival research. What emerges is the biographical portrait of a woman whose transversal role between teaching and cultural practice intimately marked generations of students and was fundamental in the history of a city - Parma - which was and still is a center of enormous cultural importance capable of projecting itself on a national and international level.