The dramatic love story The Lady with the Camellias unfolds around the princess of the Parisian chic half-world, 20-year-old Marquette Gautier. She is beautiful, men fly around her and surround her with luxury, and also scandals. But she doesn't think about them, nor about the threatening illness, which she manages to hide so far - until she meets Armand. In the love they fall in, they discover a feeling of complete harmony, perfect fusion. Markéta is free and happy for the first time in her life, she doesn't have to pretend and lie. But then Armand finds himself under pressure from his family and the lovers reach a tragic crossroads. The lie that Markéta resorted to in her struggle with fate culminates in disaster... According to the book, more than twenty films have been made to date, in which Isabelle Adjani, Sarah Bernhardt, Lillian Gish, Greta Garbo, Isabelle Huppert and other stars have played Markéta. The captivating story became the subject of Verdi's opera La Traviata, it also inspired composer Ennio Morricone and artists such as Alfonso Mucha.