Silvine Picard

In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.

Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart attack throws him into a tailspin. Tony's convinced he's going to die. When his cardiologist warns him : We all need others. Alone, we're nothing. Tony decides to reconnect with the daughter he abandoned twenty years earlier, when she was just a baby. Still a coward, he's unable to screw up the courage to actually confront her directly. So he decides to sign up for a dance class she's teaching in Paris. Incognito, of course. To get to know her gradually… in a desperate attempt to give some meaning to his empty life. In the process, he has more than a few dance steps to learn!

人気の絶頂でハリウッド・スターの座を捨て、モナコ公妃となったグレース・ケリーはモナコ宮殿のしきたりに馴染めず、公務に勤しむ夫レーニエ3世とのすれ違いも重なり孤独を感じていた。結婚から5年が過ぎた1961年12月、グレースのもとにハリウッド時代の知己だったヒッチコックが新作映画「マーニー」の脚本を携え会いに来る。ヒッチコックは、宮殿で孤立するグレースに「マーニー」の主演を引き受けて欲しい」と依頼する。