Mademoiselle Paradis

Vienna 1777: Maria Theresia "Resi" Paradis, 18 years old and blinded at an early age, is known in Viennese society as a piano prodigy. After countless medical failures, her ambitious parents entrust her to Franz Anton Mesmer, a physician controversial for his novel methods. Slowly Resi begins to feel freedom for the first time in her life in the open house of the Mesmers, between rococo and enlightenment, in the circle of wondrous patients and the parlor maid Agnes. When Resi begins to perceive her first images as a result of the treatment, she realizes with horror that her musical virtuosity is lost ...

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