Ezekiel Harrington is a struggling Philadelphia gallery owner at the
turn of the Twentieth century. A chance encounter reconnects him with a childhood friend, Robert Henri, who is now studying art. Henri
introduces Ezekiel to a cadre of striving artists. Among them is a
crude Bohemian woman of tremendous talent. Immediately, Ezekiel despises her.

His business continues to languish until a request for portrait comes
in. The customer is a member of high Philadelphia society and insists the Bohemian woman will paint it. She is to use Ezekiel’s gallery for the sittings. He doesn’t want her in his store at all until he hears the terms of the deal.

It is on the shoulders of this illicit
woman that his fortunes begin to take a remarkable turn.

As he bumbles through turn-of-the century Philadelphia and
Paris, his changing feelings for the unacceptable woman put him on
an intense and unexpected course.

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