A woman betrayed. Reduced to earning her bread. Bereft of hope.
Clarice arrives in Bath to find her services rejected. A stranger insists on coming to her rescue. A French émigré, he recognises her loneliness, poverty and despair.
Gervais finds her a post. But an introduction has a startling effect, reviving the hideous past.
All is set at risk. Will the growing friendship survive?