Still Life

Alone, a child of the streets and orphaned at a young age, he was born to paint. Rummaging through trash and bins of the old London for materials, selling art just to get by. Painting, with heart, he survived, until one day he saw her. Anatolia, the most beautiful girl in all of London, well off limits for a peasant of his stature but on his mind, nonetheless. Attempts to impress her family failed but not in the eyes of Anatolia. A forbidden love, a dark and horrible secret, could their love overcome or would they be driven apart by society, by the very family he wanted so desperately to be a part of?