Rosa Bonheur was a pragmatic idealist, a conventional outsider, but above all a painter of agricultural life and wildlife at a time when the industrial revolution and urban growth were causing whole sections of the age-old relationship between men and women to disappear. animals. A feminist too, who refuses to marry and spends his whole life with women. This was enough to shock more than one right-thinking person. On the contrary, she is honored, respected, decorated, as if protected by a magical name. This film retraces the journey of the most famous French woman painter of the 19th century.
