When Britain enters World War II, Audrey returns to live with Ella in the neutral Netherlands.

While filming Monte Carlo Baby in 1951, Audrey is scouted by Colette to star in the Broadway play Gigi.

While filming The Nun's Story in Stanleyville, Belgian Congo, Audrey learns about the area's lack of access to good medical care.

She is offered the role of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's, but turns it down due concerns about playing a wild "call girl."

While preparing to film the final scene of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Audrey theorizes that Holly abandoning her cat symbolizes how she feels about herself: lost and un-loveable.

Audrey's insight gains her the respect of Truman Capote, the cantankerous writer of the novella on which the film is based.

Critical reviews noted that the film overcame several potential pitfalls, including the usual insipidness of television movies and the difficulty of mounting a biopic of a revered actress who had died only seven years earlier.

Entertainment Weekly wrote that Jennifer Love Hewitt had "guts" to take on the role, and called her "excellent at conveying Hepburn's studied modesty".

While the review describes the other actors as "a cast of impersonators who are mostly much worse than herself [Hewitt]", it sums up the film as a "corny, curious, but achingly sincere and fitfully enjoyable TV movie".

[3] The Apollo Guide called the screenplay "a mildly pleasant surprise" for a television film and praised Hewitt's performance for conveying the "mannerisms and accent" of Hepburn without taking on a full-blown impersonation.

It reserved its greatest praise for Rossum's performance, which "demonstrates both her [Hepburn's] heart and the development of her strength of character and explains, in part, why she was unique".

According to The Baltimore Sun review: "What's impossibly wrong with this film is that Hewitt has no physical grace while Hepburn was the very embodiment of it.

... Director Steve Robman ... has to use every trick from slow motion to shooting only legs and arms of body-doubles to make it look as though Hewitt could have been a ballerina".