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By GEOFFREY WANSELL

Published: 07:58 EDT, 13 May 2025 | Updated: 07:58 EDT, 13 May 2025

Famous movie actress Lila Crayne is America’s sweetheart, kind, warm and dazzlingly beautiful. She and her director husband Kurt Royall are Hollywood royalty, on the cover of Vogue one moment and about to direct and put on a production of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s magnetic story Tender Is The Night the next.

But not all is as it seems, for Lila is troubled and consults psychiatrist Jonah Gabriel about what is disturbing her. It emerges that Royall is abusing Lila, and, after a time, the psychiatrist falls in love with her during therapy.

Nothing is what it appears in this brooding story of revenge wrapped up in a homage to Fitzgerald. Lila is far from the sweet ingénue that she presents – and is Gabriel a knight in shining armour or a manipulative villain?

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