Through two episodes in the life of the great stage actress Sarah Bernhardt - the amputation of her right leg in 1915 and the jubilee organized by her friends in her honor in 1896 - her passionate relationship with the actor Lucien Guitry is explored.
When Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, his ghostwriter, are at the summit of their collaboration, Auguste decides to pass himself off as Alexandre in order to seduce Charlotte, a fervent admirer of the great man.
