Villette

Lucy Snow is a young orphan who has neither money nor family. However, she has an excellent education, a strong character and an adventurous enough mind to go alone to the continent and find a lucrative position as an English... teacher in a respectable boarding school for young girls. It was there, amidst hard everyday work and petty female intrigues, that fate brings her together with two very different men - the Englishman John and the Belgian Paul. The first seems a true example of calm British charm, the second is dark, harsh and uneven. The first evokes warm sympathy in Lucy, the second - a whole storm of conflicting feelings. But whether one of them will become her love and destiny - Lucy doesn’t know yet...