Few people are as unusual and have the magnetism of Mirka Mora. Once regarded as a scandalous bohemenian, Mirka, a much-loved artist, is now regarded as a national treasure. She knows how to love life and infectiously and vivaciously shares saucy, naughty, haunting and dynamic memories, stories and philosophical ideas.

This documentary is Mirka exploring her life, circle of friends including John and Sunday Reed, art patrons and founders of the Museum of Modern Art of Australia, along with John Perceval, Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, Joy Hester and Albert Tucker, the hungry artists who ate the French soups and culinary delights at the family café’s and restaurants. The documentary looks at Melbourne’s flourishing cultural period through exclusive interviews and previously unseen home movies, private and public recordings in all media, going back to the early 50’s.

Mirka is one of Australia’s best-loved artists and continues to live an amazing and dynamic life at over 80. Together with her husband Georges Mora many believe she changed the way Australia grew up. Melbourne changed. Mirka Mora is unlike any other Australian woman she is simply Mirka.