
Skorpios au loin
In July 1959, as Aristotle Onassis’s sumptuous yacht, the Christina O, prepares to leave the port of Monte Carlo for a Mediterranean cruise, with Maria Callas and Winston Churchill among its distinguished guests, a last-minute guest comes aboard, much to the delight of the former British Prime Minister: Greta Garbo. But the meeting between the Old Lion, with his extraordinary fighting spirit, and the Sphynx, who had left the bright lights of Hollywood at the height of his fame, quickly proved to be passionate and explosive, against the backdrop of a night made all the more electric by the fact that Callas succumbed to Onassis under her husband’s nose. Will this journey through troubled waters reach its destination, Skorpios, without a hitch? Skorpios, the scorpion island, like an omen cast on the horizon…