The love story of the Italian artist Amadeo Modigliani and the Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova, which flared up in Paris and St. Petersburg in the 1910s.

1910, Paris. The fates of a young Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and of an unknown for the moment Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani meet. Anna is married, Amedeo is a struggling artist. When they meet their lives change forever. Anna goes back to Russia, and Amedeo sends her letters begging her to return. Meanwhile, Anna's husband, an ambitious and rising poet, leaves her to go on a long trip to Africa to find the inspiration. Feeling abandoned, on an impulse, Anna goes back to Paris, where she faces an impossible choice - between being a Woman or a Poet.

1910, Paris. The fates of a young Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and of an unknown for the moment Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani meet. Anna is married, Amedeo is a struggling artist. When they meet their lives change forever. Anna goes back to Russia, and Amedeo sends her letters begging her to return. Meanwhile, Anna's husband, an ambitious and rising poet, leaves her to go on a long trip to Africa to find the inspiration. Feeling abandoned, on an impulse, Anna goes back to Paris, where she faces an impossible choice... between being a Woman or a Poet.