Courtesan's Daughter

What happens when a daughter''s dream and a mother''s sordid past collide?

New York, 1910. Seventeen-year-old Sylvie and her French-immigrant mother Justine eke out a living doing piecework in a tenement on the Lower East Side, while Sylvie attends school so that she can escape their life of poverty by becoming a teacher.

At least, that''s what her mother believes should happen. Sylvie, though, has ...