Focuses on the lives and work of five strong, creative and intelligent women, each of whom stood behind a figure of world renown, of ten dedicating her entire life to serving the genius of the other. Subjects are: Isabel Burton, wife of Sir Richard Borton, Maria Nys, first wife of Aldous Huxley, Franoise Gilot, mistress to Pablo Picasso, Helen Dukas, assistant to Albert Einstein, and Vera Slonim, wife of Vladimir Nabokov.