"The story of a beautiful Southern belle desperately determined to become a great ballerina... of her violent, passionate marriage to a famous artist, her love affair with a young French aviator on the Riviera... of wild parties, drunken brawls, insane escapades, the dissolute, destructive pleasures that gutted the lives of the most famous couple of the flaming twenties, as one headed toward alcoholism, the other toward madness... "