Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, doomed romances, and rather glamorous betrayals.
Rumours start flying around in a small French village after a butcher's wife goes missing.
A lawyer defends his childhood friend accused of killing his wife.
