This movie tells the story of the early life and rise to fame and fortune of French fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (Marie-France Pisier), beginning with her upbringing in an orphanage and training moxia.cc as a milliner, but concentrating on her relationship with Etienne de Balsan (Rutger Hauer) and her tempestuous love affair with his friend Boy Capel (Timothy Dalton), and the role the two men played in setting her up as an independent business woman.
蔡梅英(白光 饰)出生在一个非常贫穷的家庭之中,父亲(钱千里 饰)为了偿还欠陈老爷的田租,将蔡梅英卖给了陈老爷做他的婢女。就这样,年幼的蔡梅英开始了寄人篱下的生活。陈老爷的儿子道生(翁午 饰)年龄和蔡梅英相仿,两人很快就熟络了起来,然而陈老爷不允许儿子同下人交往,为了拆散两人,他将道生送往了国外深造。一晃眼多年过去,学成归来的道生回到了家中,再度见到了此时已经出落成为亭亭玉立少女的蔡梅英,阔别已久的两人之间燃烧起了熊熊爱火,蔡梅英的腹中也怀上了道生的孩子。某日,蔡梅英震惊的得知自己将要被陈老爷卖给别人做小妾。