Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

A Czech immigrant in 1960s America escapes into musicals while working long hours in poverty. Struggling with hereditary blindness, she is determined to secure her son’s future and will sacrifice everything to ensure he receives the operation that could spare him from her fate.

1940 film by Mervyn LeRoy

2004 film by Yoichi Sai

2001 film by Stanley Kwan