Logline: A milkmaid secretly auditions against her mother’s will for a famous theatre, hoping to set her family free of their financial burden, and soon finds herself in center stage struggling to separate fact and fiction.

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Synopsis: 

     Young nineteen-year-old Effloresce Creux is a poor milkmaid living with her single mother and raising her younger siblings on their family farm and Inn on the outskirts of the small rural village of Amiens on the Wittern Isles. Known for her chest, hollowed and made out of vines, she is seen as an ordinary farm girl in this fantastical world. Her family for the past decade has been struggling to pay back the debt to the town’s mayor, Laurent Arseanu after her father had rumored to have fled away with a lover after he was commissioned to paint the village’s 1000-year-old celebration mural and sold the expensive paints. While visitors come through the town, Effloresce hears of the famous Théâtre du Séraphiquein the city of Vales is looking for extraordinary people to join their show. Against her mother’s wishes, Effloresce goes to Vales and auditions for a part, and to everyone’s surprise, she is accepted onto the cast. While rehearsing for the upcoming show she is discovered by Arseanu’s son, Raphael and she is challenged to raise and clear all the debt on her opening night, or she must sacrifice herself and marry him and in order to free the rest of her family. After a poster is delivered on the night of the show, Effloresce discovers a familiar outline of the moth on the corner of the painting. She follows the delivery man back to a well where she finds her father was kept for the last 10 years forced to paint for money. With time running out and unable to retrieve her father, she returns to the theatre and confronts Laurent in front of the crowd, and then later goes back to retrieve her dying father from the well. She returns back to the closest thing to ordinary life as a milkmaid together at her family’s inn, awaiting her next endeavor.

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