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The story begins in Saint-Sauver in 1892 where a young Gabrielle (portrayed by Keira Knightly) is living with her parents, dreaming of running away to the city with her much older suitor, Henry Gauthier-Villars (Willy) played by Dominic West. Skip forward to 1893 and a newly wed Gabrielle is struggling to fit into her new life in Paris, where her cheating husband has her living under his shadow and ghost writing his letters, she learns that “everyone is playing a character”.