Set in Paris in 1919, on the life span lately Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, emphasizing his past days in addition to his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani has fallen in love with Jeanne, a beautiful and new girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and