Summary
In the penumbral shadows of a 1920s Paris, Mona, a disenfranchised American art student, finds herself adrift after the sudden evaporation of her academic patronage. The City of Light becomes a labyrinth of Stygian despair, leading her to the frigid embrace of the River Seine. At the precipice of oblivion, she is intercepted by Douglas, a charismatic actor whose intervention is less an act of charity than a catalyst for a radical metamorphosis. Two years hence, the destitute waif has been replaced by the 'White Moth,' a phantasmagorical creature of the stage whose presence ignites a feverish obsession within the Parisian social hierarchy. She has become a mirror for the city's desires—a figure of unattainable elegance for women and a siren of ruinous attraction for men—yet beneath the gossamer wings of her celebrity lies the lingering trauma of her near-erasure and the complex debt owed to the man who refashioned her soul.
Synopsis
An American art student in Paris loses her scholarship and considers ending it all in the River Seine but is rescued by a dashing actor. 2 years later, now a stage sensation--every woman wants to be her, and every man wants to be with her.
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