Paris 1936. The successful photographer Dora Maar is at the heart of the surrealist circle around Paul Éluard and Man Ray. Then this eccentric young woman meets Pablo Picasso and falls in love with the painter, who is going through a creative crisis. Dora's dark sensuality inspires Picasso, he starts painting again by her side. Some of his greatest works were created under Dora's influence, especially Guernica. However, her own artistic development stops. And the gap between them keeps getting bigger….