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The Duchess of Alba, referred to as Goya's muse, evokes the interests of youth on her behalf deathbed in the royal court of eighteenth century Madrid. A lady contradicts the methods of her arranged marriage and chases love—and the life span of the printed writer—until her visitors condemn her as a threat to society within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Nina Berberova escapes persecution throughout the Russian Revolution and flees to Paris, where in actuality the intelligentsia naïvely desire the guarantee of the Soviet Nation. These three ladies make an effort to discover intimacy and interest in realms that rarely support feminine wish.