It is the summer of 1899, and Olympia Biddeford and her parents have retired from the heat of Boston to the coastal resort of Fortune's Rocks. When the celebrated essayist John Haskell is invited to stay, no one foresees the affair that is to follow. What begins as the briefest of silences becomes a relationship that is both passionate and destructive - six short weeks that will shape the rest of their lives.
Útesy osudu Séria
Táto séria skúma búrlivé dospievanie mladých žien na pozadí spoločenských konvencií na prelome 19. a 20. storočia. Rozprávanie sa ponára do zložitosti prvých lások, sexuálnych objavov a nevyhnutných následkov, ktoré prináša odklon od spoločenských noriem. Sledujte hrdinky, ako sa potýkajú s triednymi predsudkami a hľadajú svoje miesto vo svete, zatiaľ čo sa snažia znovu vybudovať svoje životy po katastrofálnych rozhodnutiach. Je to silný pohľad na ženskú erotiku, spoločenské napätie a nezlomnú silu ducha tvárou v tvár nepriazni osudu.
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