Ceremony of Innocence

Following graduation from Wellesley, an inquisitive but skeptical Gemma Danforth spends the year in Nice where, as a consequence of exposures to the broadening world view of the early Modernists, she gradually sheds her skepticism and replaces it with maturity's hardened resolve. Her months in France lead to encounters with the literary and artistic luminaries of the era. Gemma's journey is later shared with an alienated ex-pat member of the British aristocracy, her eventual lover, and toge...