Antoinette and Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel always knew that they were born for a better life. Abandoned by their family, they grew up under the care of pious nuns who trained sisters for the simple lives of the wives of merchants or shopkeepers. Their secret stash under the floorboards, filled with romance novels and magazine clippings, was all they had to keep their dreams of the future alive. The time had come when the Chanel sisters had to go out into the world and there, with fierce tenacity, prove that they were worthy of society , which never accepted them. This journey took them from poverty to fashionable cafes, the magnificent halls of Vichy and a small hat shop in Paris. And while the name of one of the sisters became known throughout the world, the second remained in the shadows for a long time. It's time to learn her story.