Portrait of a Shoemaker
New York City Judge Julia Husson hides a dark secret. She is part guardian angel, part conspirator to the shoemaker's strange arrangement. The shoemaker has a talent for hiding her identity. She is a shapeshifter, a master of self-invention. Rumor has it, she spent time in an asylum for killing her mother and brother.
Julia has her career, and she is hopelessly devoted to her niece, B atrice, yet is tormented by an unbearable error in judgement regarding a teenage girl more than a decade ago. When B atrice's affair with a famous actor becomes explosive, Julia is reminded that all art is deceptive. What on the surface appears to be a picture of beauty, is, in reality, quite dangerous.