The Côte d’Azur. 1915.In his twilight years, Auguste Renoir istormented by the loss of his wife, thepains of arthritic old age and theterrible news that his son Jean has beenwounded in action. But when ayoung girl miraculously enters his world, the oldpainter is filled with anew, wholly unexpected energy. Blazing with life,radiantly beautiful,Andrée will become his last model, and the wellspring of aremarkablerejuvenation.
Back at the family home toconvalesce,Jean too falls under the spell of the new, redheaded star inthe Renoirfirmament. In their Mediterranean Eden - and in the face ofhis father's fierceopposition - he falls in love with this wild,untameable spirit... and as hedoes so, within weak-willed, battle-shakenJean, a filmmaker begins togrow.
