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Black Swan, 2002. Near Fine. Ramona Drottoveo is a haughty, unsightly albino woman whose sole asset is h er intoxicating and magical aroma. She works as a chambermaid at a luxuriou s Italian country estate where men desire her and she readily satiates thei r lust. In an act of defiance, she marries the one man who resisted her, th e quiet beekeeper. But when he catches her with another man on their weddin g day, he kills himself. When the beekeeper's body disappears and strange e vents befall the estate, the townspeople blame Ramona and her lover. Exiled , they end up in Naples, where Ramona continues to use her sexually charged aroma to get what she wants. However, when she conceives and has a child, Ramona's smell vanishes. Without money, a lover, or her spellbinding scent, Ramona humbly returns to the country estate with her daughter in tow to a surprising response and her ultimate fate. Following La Cucina (2000), Prio r once again explores the power of the senses in a lush and bawdy tale of s ex, desire, and the certainty of retribution.