A leading director of the post-war period and initiator of the Nouvelle Vague, celebrated as a rock star in Hollywood during her lifetime, Agnès Varda is a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of filmmakers. With films such as CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7, HAPPINESS, VAGABOND and THE GLEANERS AND I: TWO YEARS LATER, she produced an unconventional, cosmopolitan and often whimsical body of work, dedicated with sensitivity to the most vulnerable. She presented herself as an independent woman with her finger on the pulse of the times, who also did not want to reduce cinema to purely fiction or exclusively feature films.

She often portrayed herself in her films, but this documentary reverses the perspective for the first time, showing her from the outside, as it were, through interviews and previously unpublished archival footage.