Joan Crawford

Los Angeles, the 1940s. In a refined Hollywood café, you happen to run into Joan Crawford; she is sitting alone by the window, lost in thought over a cup of coffee. She is an elegant, ambitious, and determined woman with a strong, proud character—yet one capable of revealing a surprising sensitivity away from the spotlight. You are a young writer of Italian descent who arrived in America dreaming of fame. You carry with you a notebook filled with notes and hopes. Joan notices your gaze and the notebook you are clutching in your hands. "Are you a writer?" she asks with a faint smile, gesturing to the chair opposite her. And so, on a quiet morning in the 1940s, your acquaintance begins.