My House of Spirits

Feminist trailblazer and literary icon Isabel Allende sets out on her last global book tour, reckoning with love, loss, and legacy as she turns her extraordinary life into her greatest story yet.

My House of Spirits (w/t) is an intimate, character-driven portrait of the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author - and one of the fiercest feminist voices of our time. Now 83, Isabel Allende opens her life to the camera as she embarks on her final book tour and reflects on a lifetime of love, loss, and defiance.

Exiled from Chile after the 1973 military coup, Allende transformed exile into art and trauma into activism. Her novels gave voice to women silenced by history and authoritarianism alike, inspiring generations to reclaim their stories. Today, as the world faces a resurgence of authoritarianism and censorship, her message of freedom, empathy, and resistance feels more urgent than ever.

Filmed with unprecedented access, the documentary weaves vérité, family archives, and cinematic sequences that evoke the magical realism of her prose. Past and present intertwine as Isabel revisits her most defining moments: the coup that changed her life, the death of her daughter Paula, and her revolutionary ascent in a male-dominated literary world.

For the first time, Allende becomes the protagonist of her own story - unfiltered, vulnerable, and unguarded. Her reflections on aging, creativity, and courage reveal not just a literary icon at work, but a woman still fighting to shape the narrative of her life - and, in doing so, the times we live in.