In Italy's riches and most powerful city, Leanardo da Vinci paints his masterpiece - the portrait of Mona Lisa, wife of the silk merchant Giocondo, thewoman whose mysterious smile has intrigued the world down the centuries.
Behind the smile there is a real woman - a passionate girl, loved by one of the powerful Medicis, and unhappy wife, married at fifteen to a man twice her age, a beautiful aristocrat who inspires and guides Leonardo's genius...
This is her story, and the story of her turbulent times.
