Louis to collect Violet, claiming that her marriage is illegal without their consent. Two weeks after the wedding, Hattie and her husband arrive from St. Bellocq arrives to wed Violet, ostensibly to protect her from the larger world. Violet eventually returns to Nell's after quarreling with Bellocq, but social reform groups are forcing the brothels of Storyville to close. She is frustrated by Bellocq's devotion to his photography and lack of care for her as a dependent, as much as he is frustrated by the reality that she is a child. Bellocq is entranced by Violet's beauty, youth, and photogenic face. Bellocq even buys Violet a doll, telling her that "every child should have a doll".
In many ways, their relationship resembles one between a parent and child, with Bellocq standing in for Violet's absent mother. He initially says no, but then he takes her in and commences having a sexual relationship with the child. She appears on Bellocq's doorstep and asks him if he will sleep with her and take care of her. Violet runs away from the brothel after being punished for some hijinks. Hattie promises to return for Violet, once she's settled and has broken the news to the new spouse. Louis without her daughter, whom her husband believes to be her sister. She marries a customer and leaves for St. Hattie, meanwhile, aspires to escape prostitution. After a bidding war among regulars, Violet is bought by an apparently quiet customer. Nell decides that Violet is old enough for her virginity to be auctioned off. Violet is a restless child, frustrated by the long, precise process Bellocq must go through to compose and take pictures. His activities fascinate Violet, though she believes he is falling in love with her mother, which makes her jealous.
Madame Nell agrees only after he offers to pay.īellocq becomes a fixture in the brothel, photographing the prostitutes, mostly Hattie. He asks to be allowed to take photographs of the women. Bellocq comes with his camera, Hattie and Violet are the only people awake. Hattie has given birth to a baby boy and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet, who lives in the house. In 1917, during the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, Hattie is a prostitute working at an elegant brothel run by the elderly, cocaine-sniffing Madame Nell.
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