A poor travelling portrait-painter is forbidden to use his eyes, and his wife Leah writes down in her diary the stories his sitters once told him. They include the gambler’s nightmare of A Terribly Strange Bed, a lawyer’s battle of wits over a stolen letter, and the French Revolution tale of Sister Rose, with prologues that sketch the couple’s struggles.
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