While baking an orange soufflé, the prostitute Hilda is unsuccessfully advocating for a deeper relationship with her rich, 78-year-old friend Pennington, her only customer for the last seven years. She wants him to take her on as his ...See moreWhile baking an orange soufflé, the prostitute Hilda is unsuccessfully advocating for a deeper relationship with her rich, 78-year-old friend Pennington, her only customer for the last seven years. She wants him to take her on as his full-time mistress and away from the toppling smokestacks of the smudged Middle West - but he leaves her flat. Hilda begins at stalemate and ends there, as crumpled as her uncooperative soufflé. TV adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Bellow's 1966 exploration of the sexes.
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