The problems start from the inequalities between men and women. Well, we say: that's how men are. Or: that's how women are. And we accept their different levels of foolishness.
Marriages, widowhood, children, love, career, poverty, wealth: Daisy's life is full of twists and turns which she accepts without complaint. Trying to understand more deeply her role in the events that marked her, she decides to write her autobiography: from the tragic circumstances of her birth in 1905 until 1990.