This documentary takes us on a journey to discover the personality of Madonna, her family – the traumatizing death of her mother when she was only 5 years old – her exuberance, her early desire to seduce and to shock. “The True Story of Madonna” also reveals her bound to religion, spirituality, motherhood, sexuality, her relationship to men, her ego wars with her many lovers, her first encounter with Sean Penn, and her very own paradoxes. To conclude, this documentary exposes her relation to age and to her body, her quest for eternal youth and the eventual succession planning of her daughter Lourdes.