Shakespeare said that love is a fire that never goes out. Franceska is that fire. Her way of speaking, her way of moving, her way of mastering silence—everything about her is theater and passion. She's the kind of woman who doesn't just find herself, she feels herself. Each encounter is a new chapter in an old romance, one that 19th-century poets would call fatal. To be in front of her is to understand what Byron meant when he wrote: 'She walks in beauty, like the night.'