Set. Panopticum + Caribbean marriage. Hoffman E.

The first loud success to Hoffman came in 1998, when the film adaptation of her novel “Practical Magic” was released, where Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman played the main roles.

The beginning of the XIX century, the island of St. Thomas. Rachel Prai is growing in the family of a Jewish merchant, whose ancestors once fled from Europe, escaping from the Inquisition.

Rachel is a wayward and independent girl who spite her mother for days, reads books in the father’s library and dreams of glamorous Parisian life. But she does not manage her fate: when the father of her father threatens the ruin, Rachel agrees to marry an elderly widow in order to save his family from poverty. After his death, she decides to connect her life with a mysterious stranger from Europe, Frederick.

He is the exact opposite of the Rachel: he is wearing health and fascinated by numbers more than romantic adventures, moreover, her father’s nephew. Everything was against them: the dissimilarity of education and temperament, public opinion. And yet their marriage took place. The son of Racheli and Frederick is known throughout the world today. His name is Kamil Pissaro. Would a great impressionist be born if one woman had not gone against everyone?