Bella was a warm, sensitive, Jewish matriarch, a devoted wife and a loving, compassionate mother. But Bella was also a beautiful, sensuous woman with strong ambition and remarkable dressmaking talent. Then only thing lacking in her life was the love of a man; her husband had left her for another woman. So her work and her children became her whole life and she built a name in fashion that became synonymous with 5th Avenue's finest coutures. As she rose from her East Side tenement to fortune and fame, she still longed for love. There was only one man who could make her complete--but he was a man she could never marry.