Joséphine Baker - J’ai deux amours A mixed-race girl, African American, Indigenous from the Appalachians. She grows up to the rhythm of the blues in a very poor neighborhood. To rid herself of fear and misery, she begins to dance, playing the “clown.” Tough, determined, but also friendly and cheerful. She starts touring with a small traveling theater and makes her Broadway debut at sixteen.
Paris: she arrives at 25, and it will be her city forever. She will give her all and will be deeply loved. Her shows transcend time, half-naked but no one is scandalized, because they are bold but never vulgar. She travels the world, idolized by great artists and experiences great loves.
World War II changes everything in Josephine's soul. She decides to repay everything France has given her: she joins the intelligence services, becomes a militant with risky missions across Europe, funds the Resistance, and sings for the soldiers…
No children, fate decided otherwise. She, who would have wanted many. After the war, she decides to adopt many children of different languages, races, and religions, with her partner Jo Bouillon, the truest love of her life. With this “commune” in the castle of Milandes, she anticipates the great struggles against racial segregation.
Of course, she also has to travel the world and work to finance it all.
She returns to America to fight, actively like few others, for the civil rights of Americans. Famous is her speech at the March on Washington with M.L. King for freedom and jobs.
But then comes failure and poverty… the end of the dream of Milandes. Ill and burdened with debts, sorrowful over the end of her relationship with Jo (from whom she will never separate in the name of their universal family).
She will be helped by Grace Kelly… a pivotal encounter and true friendship.
She will continue to sing and dance until the end, tireless, joyful, full of life…
A cerebral hemorrhage takes her away… France mourns its girl, she will be remembered and honored as the first in many things…
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