Dangerous Waters

In this evocative silent-era drama, Jimmie Moulton emerges from a two-year odyssey in the rugged American West, a landscape that has forged his character into something singular and resilient. His homecoming to New York City, however, is not the triumphant reunion he envisioned. Instead, he finds his betrothed, Cora Button, ensnared in the sybaritic orbit of Victor DeLara, a man whose pedigree is as impeccable as his morals are bankrupt. DeLara, a Mephistophelean figure of the urban elite, has cultivated an atmosphere of decadent abandon that threatens to swallow Cora’s sense of self. The narrative tension oscillates between the honest, sun-drenched simplicity of Jimmie’s ranch life and the chiaroscuro-drenched corridors of New York high society. This moral friction reaches a fever pitch during the 'Feast of the Gods,' a bacchanalian masquerade where the city's aristocracy dons the masks of Greek deities. Within this grotesque parody of Olympus, Jimmie must navigate a labyrinth of social artifice and predatory intent to reclaim Cora from the brink of spiritual and social annihilation, leading to a confrontation that strips away the gilded veneer of the Jazz Age's precursors.