It is 1917 and Florence Quirke is an aspiring artist, she moved from her home town in Pittsburgh to the most well known city in the world, New york just to attend the college of her dreams. 'Parkluss College Of Art'. All of her inspirations and role models went there, and she longed to follow in their footsteps. Her parents died from a car crash, but she couldnt bring herself to cry. It just wasn't like Florence, she could hold her own and her goal was to carry on with life and let nothing get in the way of her dreams. But...when she meets Fredrick Ethlered, a teacher at the college, can things get any more ruined for Florence?