Summary
In a windswept Breton village, Marie Bernais emerges as an operatic prodigy whose celestial voice—a haunting mezzo-soprano echoing through coastal caves—becomes both divine gift and psychological torment. Her fisherman father, Jacques, interprets her talent as demonic possession, burning votive candles before weathered saints to exorcise imagined evil. When aristocratic composer Raoul Nieppe becomes intoxicated by Marie's artistry during a Midsummer festival, their clandestine romance ignites against Normandy's craggy cliffs. Yet Raoul's ancestral obligations and suffocating class consciousness poison their idyll; his abrupt rejection fractures Marie's sanity. In a harrowing nocturne, she wades into churning tides clutching his abandoned love letters, saved only by her father's desperate intervention—leaving her voice forever silenced by trauma.
Synopsis
Marie Bernais possesses a wonderful voice which her father believes is a gift from the devil. Raoul Nieppe loves her, but fears marrying below his social status, and his rejection results in a suicide attempt by Marie.
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