It was the early years of the twentieth century, Violet lived comfortably in her mansion with her beloved husband ... This is how the tale of a Perrault transported to those early twentieth century in the England of King Edward VII could begin. We just know that Perrault was able to delve into the most candid princess tale as if he could pull out a pre-existing vein.Poe to transform each scene into a dark tale.
Perhaps that is why Violet ends up darkening her personality, plagued by an insane curiosity about a book of fairy tales that her husband refuses to lend her for her afternoons of vacation and tea in front of the window overlooking the countryside.
Any obsession can end up leading to a delusion. And so it happens to the good Violet, who ends up finding her bones in a sanatorium, in order to seek the reestablishment of reason through seclusion and the therapies of a science little given to the consideration of dementia as a disease in the sense that it may have now.
But Violet manages to escape from the spiral and returns home (perhaps having been away from it gave her the necessary chemical balance). However, a stranger has arrived at her house who reawakens suspicions and who ends up taking a drift even worse than the sinister obsession that had plagued her before her hospitalization.
Although Violet may have learned something in her psychotic phase. At the very least it will keep her on her alert and in a better disposition to try to discern the truth from the false reflections of madness.
To the point where she can really come to the conclusion that no one is saner in that house than she is, in light of the indications turned into evidence that everything that happens in that house is due to a macabre plan that may finally end. with his own life.
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