La mujer zorro y el doctor Shimamura

During the summer of 1891, the young doctor Shimamura is sent on an expedition to the remote interior of Japan. Reports have reached Kyoto of lost villages in the mountains where certain women have allegedly been possessed by fox spirits. At first, Shimamura is skeptical, until he meets Kiyo, a "blooming beauty" whose symptoms (howling, squirming, and a foxlike form sinuously slithering under her skin) fit more folklore than any diagnosis in the textbooks. text. However, something transformative happens to the doctor: from that moment on, he suffers from a chronic fever and women are drawn to him like moths to a flame. Sent to Europe by the Japanese government, armed with a folder of pornographic prints in case he needs to "play the oriental card", Shimamura will meet the apostles of modern psychiatry: Charcot, Tourette, Binet, Breuer, Freud. And he will try to get science to exorcise the lingering questions raised by "the fox princess of Shimane".