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Twilight Synopsis

A baby, found strapped to a donkey in the North Carolina mountains where her father drowned, is called Twilight and raised by the Anwells. At sixteen, Twilight, in love with her foster brother Jim, who runs the family's lumber business, grows jealous when Elise Charmant, vacationing with her father, a brain specialist, monopolizes Jim at the Fireman's Ball. After Twilight rings the fire alarm to stop the flirtation, she learns that Jim loves her. After the French Canadian lumberman Jules is caught robbing Jim's safe, he slips out of one handcuff and escapes. After he attacks Twilight and falls over a cliff, she becomes deranged thinking that he died. Although Dr. Charmant cannot help her, Twilight recovers when Jules returns after setting the woods on fire. When he attacks her, she shoots him in the leg, but he then handcuffs her to him so that she cannot leave him to die. After Jim carries them until he is exhausted, Twilight drags Jules and Jim to safety.

Marta of the Lowlands Synopsis

Marta is a beggar child, who is adopted by Sebastien, the wealthy landowner. Sebastien makes Marta his victim. He wishes to marry a wealthy woman, but at the same time retain his influence over Marta. He therefore arranges through Tomas, the hermit, to marry her to Manelich, a simple, untutored shepherd living in the mountains, a rough child of nature who kills wolves with his bare hands and knows naught of guile and deceit. The wedding is performed, Manelich being under the impression that Marta loves him, and being truly in love with her. Later he learns he has been tricked, while Marta, who had at first believed that Manelich had been bought with the master's gold to become her husband, finds her conclusion wrong, the honesty of his love compelling her own. Then come developments which make the drama one of the most passionate, intense, trenchant character studies ever created. Marta is a patient sufferer, a tragic figure indeed, as she bravely endures all the cruelty and indignities that are thrust upon her by the ruthless "master." We witness the poignancy of her grief, the restraint and the anguish of the oppressed woman, and her movements among the treacherous characters of her environment.