Progress in Optics

When one brother murders another in a jealous rage and scars his intended, fate sets the wheels in motion. With her love on the floor in a puddle of blood and nothing to live for, her white dress torn and bloody, Veronique climbs the footbridge spanning the Chamois River. With a last look to the sky and prayer winged into the night, she lets go.Her leap drops her toward the embracing grave of the dark water, but the arms of destiny reach out and a falling star is intercepted.Rescued by a passing gypsy who delivers her to the kumpania, this ordinary, yet headstrong, young woman must find her lust for life and learn to love again. Amid a family of mysterious and lustful gypsies in the sweeping countryside of southern France in the 1930’s, the Gypsy King knows all and reveals little.