Bread of Shame

Jack Pierce, a down and out Colorado writer, has retreated from society to the sanctuary of the mountains above Leadville. To his astonishment, an old lover, Miranda Talbot, a poet and faith healer from Texas, arrives at his house shortly after the death of his live-in girlfriend and proceeds to inspire him to write a biography about the recently deceased Yale Nobel Prize recipient Theodore Hudson. Reluctant at first, he eventually succumbs to her persuasiveness and her charms and sets off ...