The Nightingales Cry Plot
Part 3 of the Destler Trilogy
1845: A young deformed boy of aristocratic upbringing is driven from his home in Sweden when his wicked uncle murders his father to avenge his sister’s suicide. The oblivious boy then finds himself cast into a world where cruelty and prejudice reign strong, and where outcasts such as himself as displayed for all to see.
1848: After the murder of his cruel slave master, the young boy escapes and is taken in by his liberator – a young woman called Antoinette Giry. He begins to rehabilitate himself into society but an incident three years later cause him to run once again.
1855: The boy returns a man, now heavily under the influence of narcotics and near death. Now much more tainted in mind and darkened in spirit, Erik must try to meld into a world that is built on the foundations of propriety, image and perfection. His friends have now matured, and like him are struggling everyday to fit into the unit of industrial Paris.
The Nightingale’s Cry is a story that focuses on the lives of six outcasts of nineteenth century Paris and their constant struggles to come to terms with their own positions in society, their identities as individuals and their relationships with those around them – all the while contending with the pressures of a society which has no tolerance for difference.