of candles, debris from passing ships or the wrecks that are caught once in awhile along the rocks of the wild coast.
One day, she discovers the most interesting gift the sea has ever given her, a Ukrainian refugee, whose trip to America has been cut short by the violent wreck of his ship. Yanko (Vincent Perez) is unaware that he is the sole survivor of this dreadful tragedy, "one of the most violent shipwrecks ever to drench a plot" (Porter 1). His inability to speak English, his horribly disheveled state, and the fact that the villagers do not con
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