Synopsis

Cosette and Marius Pontmercy's daughter Adele is sent away to the same boarding school in America that young Marguerite de Chagney is attending. Erik, who left France after the "Don Juan" incident is a recluse living in America giving voice and organ lessons. He discovers young Adele has a gift that she has hidden well, and Margeurite becomes extremely jealous. In her rage, she swears revenge by seducing Adele's lover. When the girls go home to their families at Christmas, it is Marguerite, not Adele, who introduces the very American Tony to her parents as her fiance. Adele, meanwhile, weeps in her mother's lap. She cries that she wishes to die and will never go back to school. When Erik learns that his favorite pupil isn't going to return, he sets out to find Marguerite, who he knows is behind Adele's absense. What happens when he finds her leads to a whirlwind of discoveries and secrets that everyone wishes had remained buried.