The Concealed Truth

Summary

A marble-dust requiem for the American family, The Concealed Truth detonates its dynastic bomb inside a music room where illegitimate notes echo louder than any spoken confession. Victor Gilmore, ivory-poet and prodigal son, conducts his longing for Dorothy Eldridge—Cyrus Gilmore’s prim, typewriter-saint secretary—into a symphony of repressed violins. Dorothy, clinging to a mirage of nursery lullabies, weds Robert, the sterile heir whose pocketbook secretly nourishes Flo Merrivale, a cigarette-smoke siren draped in ostrich feathers. When the patriarch’s cadaverous hand signs the will that disinherits his firstborn—citing bastardy as legal cadence—the ancestral mansion becomes a resonating coffin: brothers claw through legacy like drowning tenors, Victor is hurled into the winter night, and every subsequent chord is a minor key of recrimination. Ivan Abramson’s scenario spirals from drawing-room fresco to moral abyss, letting maternity, money, and music bleed into one grand, discordant triad.

Synopsis

Victor Gilmore, a composer, is in love with his father Cyrus' secretary Dorothy Eldridge, but Dorothy marries his brother Robert, even though a doctor has told them that Robert can never father children. Dorothy, however, has never lost her hope to have children, and doesn't know that Robert is secretly supporting his former lover Flo Merrivale. The brothers' father eventually dies but leaves his estate to Robert, saying that he didn't believe that Victor was his son. This causes a huge rift between the brothers and a fight ensues, resulting in Victor's being thrown out of the house and family. Complications ensue.