Based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis.
71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
The story of a sexually enticing young dancer who rises up in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack 'the Ripper'.
This tragic drama is adapted from a popular Ibsen play about the relationship between a mother, her ego-maniacal husband, and their daughter. The father never approves of anything the daughter does.