Torrents of Spring

Dimitry Sanin, homeward through Frankfurt, meets Gemma Roselli in a confectioner's and is engaged almost at once. Maria Nikolaevna Polozova then claims him in Wiesbaden, buying the estate and the man. First love rises like a torrent and breaks. Turgenev's story of a Russian landowner's spring, desire, and the woman who undoes the promise.