50 years after her first recording in Nashville, Sylvie Vartan is back to make the album she will sing at the Folies Bergeres in 2014. In one of her songs, she says: "I have traced my path, without turning round / leaving the wrong turnings I’ve taken behind me / I’ve dared to set out into unknown lands/ avoiding the pitfalls and returning home". It’s on this personal and public journey from her native Bulgaria to Paris, taking in a thousand places around the world, transcending fashions and overcoming the trials and tribulations of an exceptional life, that this film sets out, shedding light on the trajectory of a shy girl who became an international icon and a resolutely free woman.