The Woman
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Lucy Weber, is a botanical illustrator with a passion for galleries and anything out of the ordinary she is so used to. There she meets Mae, strange in every way and completely and utterly obsessed with one painting. A painting of a Woman. The Woman. Over fifty paintings, with no link whatsoever, all with one face, the same face. A woman's face so beautiful it almost pulls you in.
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