Summary
A nascent talent, Jennie Raeburn, navigates the treacherous allure of the theatrical firmament, unknowingly shadowed by the tragic legacy of her aerialist mother, La Syrena, whose dazzling career was brutally extinguished by a husband's possessive rage. Orphaned and unmoored, Jennie's inherent, almost genetic, gravitation towards the stage blossoms into a successful debut, drawing her into the glittering, yet morally ambiguous, social whirl of the performance world. Her rustic cousin, Zachary Trewehella, a steadfast bastion of unrequited affection, observes her escalating infatuation with opulence and societal validation with growing apprehension. His earnest admonitions against the siren call of superficial grandeur are, predictably, dismissed by a Jennie intoxicated by newfound prominence. This dismissal precipitates a calamitous liaison with a man of society, a bitter crucible that shatters her illusions and validates Zachary's prescient warnings. Disillusioned and scarred by the affair's painful denouement, she acquiesces to a marriage with Zachary, a union initially devoid of passion, yet one that, through the slow alchemy of shared life and his unwavering devotion, ultimately ignites a profound and genuine affection.
Synopsis
Aerial dancer La Syrena, whose jealous husband kills her while she performs in midair. Her daughter, Jennie Raeburn, soon orphaned, grows up unaware of her mother's occupation, but nonetheless feels the urge to dance. She makes a successful stage debut and gets caught up in the social world of the theater. A cousin from the country, Zachary Trewehella, who has always loved Jennie, disapproves of her sudden obsession with wealth and status, but Jennie ignores his warnings. As a result, she has a disastrous affair with a society man, and realizes that her cousin was correct. In the end, bitter over her last affair, she reluctantly marries Zachary, but soon falls in love with him.
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