Sybil Vane is a seventeen-year-old actress at a third-rate theatre in Holborn, loved by an audience that cannot see her and a man who loves only what she pretends to be. When she falls in love with Dorian, the theatre loses its magic — real feeling breaks the performance, and she cannot act anymore. Fragile, luminous, devout in her romanticism, undone the moment her art and her heart became the same thing.