Lady of Taille

Lady Rosalba has been waiting for a letter from her true love, Jose Antonio, the gypsy stable master of her father's estate, who's been exiled by Don Arselio Villanueva, her rich father, for having a secret relationship with her since she was fifteen years old.

Before making her marry the man he had always intended her on marrying, Lord Archibald Westin, a wealthy, British cigarette and textile maker, her father unexpectedly suffers a major heart attack, and dies.

Ever since, 1 year after Jose Antonio disappeared, she has been waiting and waiting for word from him, and finally, six months after her father has died, she gets a letter from him through her servants.

Rosalba takes the letter, and with longing, hope, and desperation, early the next morning she visits the park where her mother, Rosa Maria, used to take her as a child before she died of tuberculosis when Rosalba was only six years old.

Rosalba believes Jose Antonio has waited for her, and is writing to ask her how she is, offer his condolences for her father, and ask her when he can return, and when they can finally be reunited.

Alas, between words of longing and desire, he regrets telling her he has not the strength to wait for her, and bids her farewell.
In disbelief, shock, and unable to breath, Rosalba, as a lady of wealth and society, tries to suppress the emotions welling up from the bottom of her heart, quickly tries to regain her composure as she walks away, but cannot, and runs off into the woods. And, there, in the solace and silence, she closes her eyes, and listens to her heart.

Something within, breaks, and she hears the crackling of the trees, and all of a sudden, she sees a wooden plank on the ground. Nature, the Earth, is challenging her. This is where the second character truly comes to life: the land, the forest...the land.

Walking onto it, noticing her skirt, and taking a deep breath, looking at the trees for the last time, she begins to move, and the movement becomes a dance...of destruction, of despair, of liberation, and surrender.

As she lets go of it all, she removes the gloves, the lace bolero, and lets her hair fall behind her back, and for the first time since her mother brought her to the park, she lays down on the grass, amongst the wildflowers.