A little girl from the center of France, placed in an orphanage with her sister, and who waits in vain every Sunday for her father to pick them up. A bellowing singer with a weak voice, who faces an audience of tipsy soldiers. A small seamstress destined to redo hems in the back shop of a provincial tailor. An apprentice courtesan with a too thin body, who finds refuge with her protector Etienne Balsan, among the cocottes and the revelers. A lover who knows that she will be "nobody's wife", not even that of Boy Capel, the man who nevertheless loved her too. A rebel that the conventions of the time prevent from breathing, and who dresses in the shirts of her lovers. This is the story of Coco Chanel, who embodied the modern woman before inventing her.