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Olympia Biddeford's passionate affair with a married man nearly three times her age, results in her being exiled from society and forces her to make a new life for herself.
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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