Place in Paris on the life span lately Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days in addition to his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen deeply in love with Jeanne, a beautiful and young girl that was Catholic. The bunch has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to some faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and