Young Violetta and her mother Hannah really are a couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is a unpredictable photographer who lives off of this generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a version, Violetta discovers her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures instantly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art landscape, and Violetta finds herself trapped among her new stature within an art muse along with her dull youth.