Angélica Liddell, an actress interested in excess and the truculent questioning of things and their foundations, uses a classic novel as a means to look at and dismantle, piece by piece, all the forms puritanism takes in our time. In 1850, when Hawthorne published The Scarlet Letter, religious authorities repressed and judged behaviours in the name of a desire for conformity; now, science and a certain idea of rationality impose their norm. In her The Scarlet Letter (2018), Angélica Liddell rebels against the violence of moral hypocrisy and pinpoints its source: “The puritan condition does not tolerate at all the sexual root of our joys and pains.” The letter A, drawn in red to mark the shame of adultery, now stands for Art, that multiple territory that resists all attempts at confinement. This Scarlet Letter, written on the restless bodies of a transnational cast, offers itself to us as a modern passion, a courageous struggle for the freedom of the arts and, consequently, of humanity.