To sing for her supper, or dance with danger? Italian opera singer, Carmalina Belluccini has been alone with her bad luck and morbid thoughts for too long. Making a public living leaves her a target for London's rich and entitled to treat her as a plaything and she hates it. When a man who is no angel offers her an affare, dignity and desire start to battle within her. She is no courtesan and certainly not mistress...