A mysterious art curator reveals the tragic personal history behind a specific painting of a stone well. He recounts a dark folktale he once told his daughter, only to reveal the devastating reality of her death and his enduring guilt.
PENELOPE: Gin is slow death, man.
THE CURATOR: From a private collection on the island of Ikaria. That one.
BLOOM: Who painted it?
THE CURATOR: I don’t know.
PENELOPE: Why is it the last thing you see every night, and the first thing you see every morning?
THE CURATOR: That’s a story. You have a minute? My daughter travelled with me when she was very young, and I’d show her the places and the art, all the most joyous and terrifying things in the world.
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