
You play Elfrida Bell, whose taste for Rousseau alarms the neighbors of Sparta at fifteen. Four years of art study in Philadelphia bring you home with a medal, a father hoping you will settle, and a mother wanting vindication by proxy — plus a raffle that turns your best painting into a bazaar prize. A year later in a Paris atelier, the master Lucien praises your friend Nadie's work and calls yours merely "ladylike," leaving you to decide whether admiring art is the same as making it.
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