A name for what I am is a film about the book " As mulheres do meu país". But what do you film when you film a book?

Seventy years after its publication, Marta Pessoa asked Susana Moreira Marques, a journalist and writer in Portugal in the 1920s, to join her in reflecting on the very material and form of the book and the readings and meanings it can bring today.

In 1947-1949, Maria Lamas was someone who got involved in the history of the women she met, who reported on their reality, who gave her opinion, who questioned, who confronted, who wanted to go deeper. Someone who was sometimes saddened and almost always revolted.

In 2021, in front of the camera, Susana Moreira Marques tries to put herself in Maria Lamas' position and look at the place women occupied before and today. A writer looks at another writer. A woman and another woman. More than seventy years separate them. The book is the same, in all its excess.

What this documentary proposes, as a filmic gesture, is a dialogue, a game of looks. There is Maria Lamas' gaze on the women, the writer's gaze on Maria Lamas and the book, and the gaze of the director (of the film) who is involved in and simultaneously observes this whole process. There are images and words, from before and today.