Madame Exupéry and the Stars in the Sky

Paris, 1930: When the young painter Consuelo gets to know Antoine de Saint-Exupéry at a party, it’s love at first sight. The spirited Central American becomes the muse of the enigmatic pilot, who would, in fact, much rather write and draw. The result of his undying love for her is The Little Prince, in which Consuelo is the beloved rose whom the prince would like to protect with a glass globe and who is constantly on his mind on whichever alien planet his travels take him to. The book makes Antoine world renowned, but the reality of being at his side is far from easy. Consuelo has to contend with his infidelity and, as an artist, she struggles to step out of the shadow of her famous husband – until Antoine leaves on a fateful reconnaissance mission over the Mediterranean in 1944 …