Marriage for Convenience

In a harrowing display of Southern Gothic desperation, Barbara Rand, the scion of an impoverished yet aristocratic lineage, is plunged into literal and metaphorical darkness. After a frantic leap from the casement of a sordid roadhouse to evade a predatory assailant, she is left sightless, a tragic figure caught in the gears of a merciless fate. Her sister, Natalie, finds herself ensnared in a Faustian bargain, forsaking her beloved Ned Gardiner to enter into a matrimonial contract with the affluent Oliver Landis. This union is a mercenary gambit, intended solely to fund the surgical intervention required to restore Barbara’s vision. The irony is corrosive: Oliver is the very monster who precipitated Barbara’s injury. Through a series of tragic misidentifications, Natalie directs her vengeful ire toward Howard Pollard, Oliver’s associate. The narrative culminates in a precipitous confrontation atop a jagged cliffside where blood and deception converge. As the bandages are poised to fall, the domestic sphere transforms into a theatre of psychological horror, where the predator attempts to finalize his victim's isolation, leading to a self-inflicted erasure that finally clears the path for a bruised redemption.