Flora Goforth is a wealthy American widow who has detached from the world in order to write her memoirs. When a handsome and mysterious young visitor arrives without warning to keep Flora company in her final hours, this dreamlike play blossoms into a fascinating meditation on life and death.
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Flora Goforth, a rich, once-beautiful southerner, has buried four husbands and retired to a secluded Italian mountaintop to write her sensational memoirs. With the aid of an overworked secretary, the eccentric woman dulls the pain of her “neuralgia” with pills and cognac, dictating night and day to meet her looming publisher’s deadline until a mysterious young stranger shows up and interrupts her routine.
