This is the story of Simone Fleurier. Wrenched from her home on a Provencal lavender farm at the age of fourteen after the accidental death of her father, she is forced to become a maid at the boarding house of her Aunt Florence in Marseilles. Life is hard, but the friendship of beautiful Emilenne, a chorus girl at the local music hall, gives Simone a dream.one day, she too will be a beautiful and famous singer.
Years later, the famous Simone Fleurier, toast of Paris, watches Nazi troops occupy the city. Suddenly, her world is turned upside down, and Simone must make new, and dangerous choices