New York Citys Lower East Side on the eve of WWI. Abraham Cahan, editor-in-chief of The Jewish Daily Forward, receives a letter addressed to his Bintel Brif column from a twenty-three-year-old girl who confesses to living in sin with her uncle and seeks his advice. The girls description of her plight inflames Cahans imagination; the enclosed photograph, a young woman in a white cotton shift gazing ...Täielik kirjeldus
New York Citys Lower East Side on the eve of WWI. Abraham Cahan, editor-in-chief of The Jewish Daily Forward, receives a letter addressed to his Bintel Brif column from a twenty-three-year-old girl who confesses to living in sin with her uncle and seeks his advice. The girls description of her plight inflames Cahans imagination; the enclosed photograph, a young woman in a white cotton shift gazing languidly up at the camera from her bed, overwhelms him with desire. Peering at the photograph, wondering if her slackened, unprotected presentation of herself was the aftermath of a feverish embrace, Cahan felt a ghostly invisible presence possess him, settling into the emptiness in his soul. Thus begins the drama of a righteous mans struggle to free himself from an obsession that threatens to destroy him and mortally wound his family. Desperate to fathom the mystery of her power, Cahan explores the girls past only to discover that her st
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