Summary
Montmartre’s cobalt dusk bleeds into the Seine as John, a canvas-splattered sybarite, trades absinthe for a Savile Row mask when his spectral doppelgänger—James, a marble-hearted Midas in spats—pleads one clandestine trans-Atlantic swap. The bohemian slips into the banker’s tailored void, only to find the silk-lined trap gnashing: a wife, June, auctioned into wedlock by signatures and threats, her gaze a wounded sonnet. John’s moral cartilage stiffens; he unpicks the husband’s predatory ledger, and in the hush of pilfered bedrooms, affection germinates between captive and impostor. News arrives that the tyrant has been swallowed by the Atlantic’s iron stomach; John, believing the corpse final, stitches himself permanently into the tyrant’s skin. Weeks later, the dead man strides back from the fog, salt-crusted and vengeful, exiles the artist to rainy gutters, and reclaims June like repossessed property. In the brutal ballet that follows, James’s own heart—long a merciless metronome—ruptures mid-assault, dropping him lifeless at her feet. The lovers, cleansed by trauma, step over the carcass into an ambiguous dawn, their identities blurred but their moral compasses newly magnetized.
Synopsis
John living a Bohemian life in Paris when his twin brother James, a British financier, appears and implores John to assume his identity so that he can secretly cross the Atlantic for a business deal. John consents and soon discovers that James is a cruel, unethical man who has forced his wife June into their marriage. John attempts to rectify the situation, and June falls in love with him. When John discovers that James has drowned in a shipping disaster, he entrenches himself in James's identity. However, several weeks later James returns, casts John out, and attacks June. During the assault, James has a heart attack and dies, and John and June are reunited.
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