An account of the life and work of the Swiss writer Johanna Spyri (1827-1901), the barely known artistic mother of Heidi, her brave alpine heroine, who was first introduced to the world between 1880 and 1881, in a novel published in two parts, and became definitely immortal thanks to an anime series, released in 1974, directed by the Japanese genius Isao Takahata.
- Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Studio: SRF, SRG SSR, ARTE, Narrative Boutique
- Keyword: biography, swiss alps, anime, portrait of an artist, female writer, literature history
- Cast: Marthe Keller, Yōichi Kotabe, Junzō Nakajima, Petra Biondina Volpe, Jean-Michel Wissmer