When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a customer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the attention of Pablo Picasso, a rising star in the art world. Eva can?t help but be drawn into his web, and what starts as a torrid affair soon evolves into what will become the first great love of Picasso?s life.