Chiara Campanelli has created her life with talent, hard work – and deceit. But she has buried that truth deep down and long ago. Nobody knows it now but the fiery eyes that look at her every time she looks into a mirror.

On 24 March 1921, Chiara is at the Teatro Diana in Milan when the bomb goes off.

That explosion shakes her and her world so hard that it mercilessly lets the props of her life fall down, and Chiara comes naked to the rendezvous with that blazing gaze.