- A man arrives in New Orleans searching for his former girlfriend, an artist who now works in a bordello.
- At the Doll House, a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madam. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before, who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the truth of her profession he triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young Kitty with whom he traveled from Texas, who is now the Doll House newest recruit.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
- In the early 1930s, Texas farmer Dove Linkhorn, with what little money he has, makes his way to New Orleans to find a former love, artist Hallie Gerard, after not having seen her in three years and not knowing where in the city she would be or what she is doing. Despite their relationship only having lasted four months at that time, he wants to marry her, and is only looking for her now in a change in his circumstance allowing him to do so. If he does locate her, he will find that she is a changed woman also under changed circumstances, she living and working at the Doll House, a high end French Quarter brothel. What eventually happens with Dove is affected additionally by three women he meets in his search for Hallie. First is teenage Kitty Twist, a penniless drifter who is attracted to Dove herself. She will steal from anyone she meets including Dove, she especially taking pleasure in bilking who she considers caring in they being what she is not. Second is widowed Teresina Vidaverri, who, all on her own, runs a truck stop, including a café, store, and gas station, at the edge of New Orleans, and willingly helps Dove in his quest in wanting to foster true love despite she too wanting him as an integral part of her life. And third is Jo Courtney, the madam at the Doll House, who views her girls as her property in having gotten most of them out from dire circumstances, she additionally treating Hallie as special and thus going to extreme measures to keep her seemingly at all cost.—Huggo
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