Coco avant Chanel

A small girl in an orphanage waits in vain for her father to collect her and her sister. An adolescent sings too quietly for her audience, made up of drunken soldiers, to hear her. A young seamstress makes a meagre living in a tailor's shop in a provincial town. A naive courtesan, too thin for her trade, seeks the protection of one man. Here is a modern woman, a woman who refuses to belong to anyone, not even the man she loves. This is the story of Coco Chanel, before she became the world’s best known fashion designer...