Maria Callas and her husband Giovanni Meneghini are invited to a cruise on the Christina, the yacht of the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis. They embark in Monaco on July 22, 1959. Here, during a stopover in Nice, Aristotle Onassis presenting Maria Callas to Winston Churchill (from behind, with the cage of Toby, his blue parakeet, near him), Giovanni Meneghini observing them in the background.