A precocious 12-year-old daughter of Hattie living in a Storyville brothel. Fascinated by photographer Ernest Bellocq, she later flees to his home where they develop a sexual relationship. After returning to the brothel, she marries Bellocq before ultimately being reclaimed by her mother and stepfather Alfred Fuller at a train station.
Brothel owner exercising economic control over Violet's future.
Complex romantic and physical entanglement born from shelter and isolation.
Biological mother-daughter bond central to the narrative.
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