Two Weeks

Summary

A chorine with footlights in her veins trades the footlights for a gilded cage when a platinum-blooded magnate dangles Broadway’s brightest bulbs before her. The contract glitters; the small print reads like a noose. One midnight, reputation fraying faster than her sequins, she bolts from velvet banquettes into the rain-bled city, tumbling into a sagging boardinghouse christened “The Barn,” a menagerie of grifters, dock poets, and war-scarred dreamers who barter cigarette smoke for lullabies. Between splintered floorboards and lantern halos, the spotlight orphan learns that applause is merely echo, while a cracked teacup passed hand to calloused hand can hold the universe.

Synopsis

A chorus girl hopes to rise to stardom and thus accepts the advances of a wealthy man. But she becomes fearful of her reputation and safety. In an attempt to escape the rake's attentions, she hides out with a disparate group of men who room in a house called "The Barn." There she learns that there is more to life than that found on the stage.