As a literary trilogy the story plunges us into Parisian life at the beginning of the twentieth century. Through illustrations, animation and original documents, the series − told like fiction − traces the phenomenal period of Modern Art. The infamous protagonists include Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Kiki, André Gide, André Malraux, Robert Capa − artists and intellectuals who came to France from all over Europe. In this episode Picasso responds to Matisse with Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. The canvas causes a scandal and ushers in the aesthetic of cubism. Not long thereafter, however, a series of rifts occur. Picasso, now wealthy from record sales figures, leaves the Bateau-Lavoir. Apollinaire moves into the heart of Saint-Germain. The poet Max Jacob is one of the only bohemians to continue living in the hardscrabble misery of Montmartre. When the First World War breaks out, yesterday’s friends part ways forever.