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Young Helene Junot (Catherine Mary Stewart) witnesses her mother's death at the hands of Nazis. Separated from her brother Edmund (Timothy Dalton) by the war, Helene goes to work at the chateau of the Count De Ville (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and falls in love with his son Hubert (Neil Dickson), to the Count's objection. She leaves for Paris where she becomes a fashion model and moves up the ladder of success, even becoming her former employer's mistress. As she builds a magazine empire, Helene (Dame Joan Collins) looks for her lost brother and seeks justice for her family. Along the way, she makes many enemies who team up to destroy her.
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Episode 1
Sun, Feb 2, 1986
Hélène Junot, a successful woman of action, leaves Paris for New York to face the failure of "Femmes modernes", the new magazine she had launched with her brother Edmond. Arriving in her empire, the "Junot Tower", erected in the middle of Manhattan, she confronts from the very first minutes the banker Gore, accompanied by his wife Jacqueline, Marcello Ditri, her former collaborator in Italy, whom she fired. Not to mention David Westerfield, whom she has loved for 20 years but who could not marry her because of his reputation, or the beautiful Z.Z., whose husband was her lover.





