Portrait of a Shoemaker

<p>Portrait of a Shoemaker</p><p></p><p>New York City Judge Julia Husson hides a dark secret. She is part guardian angel part conspirator to the shoemaker's strange arrangement. The shoemaker has a talent for hiding her identity. She is a shapeshifter a master of self-invention. Rumor has it she spent time in an asylum for killing her mother and brother.</p><p></p><p>Julia has her career and she is hopelessly devoted to her niece Béatrice yet is tormented by an unbearable error in judgement regarding a teenage girl more than a decade ago. When Béatrice's affair with a famous actor becomes explosive Julia is reminded that all art is deceptive. What on the surface appears to be a picture of beauty is in reality quite dangerous.</p>