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“Things are always more beautiful on the surface. People with secrets like it that way.”
Failed artist Alice Briggs has had a ten year curse since childhood at her isolated lakefront manor house, where her ex, the bisexual Zete runs an off-grid island campground. Escaping her duties as a caregiver, and a tragic past of bad luck in drink, dance and dangerous letter writing, Alice's next curse is due in a week. With the sudden arrival of an exotic looking gay man named Ace, can Alice find a way to escape her troubles and step into today in time?
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The Matron
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
