This is the story of a woman named Chiara.
She is an actress, the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, who one summer when her own life is in turmoil, tells herself that should would prefer to live her father’s life.
She dresses like him, speaks like him, breathes like him, with such force that those around her begin to believe it and start to call her “Marcello”.

From the mind of Cannes favourite Christophe Honoré (Sorry Angel, Love Songs) comes a joyous imagining of the – supposed – idyllic daily life of actors, assembling a French all-star cast. Marcello Mio delves into the concept of family lineage, the indelible memory of an image, and the impact of the gaze of others on the construction of one’s own self-image.