Michaela

Julia and Laura are summering in Paris, temporarily released from the burdens of their lives and the deep secrecy of their love. They discover a shy, unusual fourteen-year-old named Michaela, with an extraordinary gift for ballet. But the nurturing of that gift appears doomed - the costly training she needs is an impossible dream. Laura and Julia plead with Michaela's mother to allow them to intervene. Accompanied by Michaela and her enigmatic mother, the women return to New York, where a limitless future opens for Michaela - and the dark past envelops Laura. Laura's family of in-laws is in deep mourning for Laura's deceased husband, Dick, unaware that he kept the true cause of his illness and death from them. Nor are they aware that family friend Catharine was Dick's devoted mistress. Catharine's bottled-up, all-consuming jealous rage explodes, rupturing their lives with accusations that will jeopardise Michaela's chance for a future.