The fable-like, poignant story, subtitledA Song of Two Humans, is a silent-era melodramatic masterpiece - a beautiful, atmospheric, lyrical and poetic work of art with roots in the German Expressionist movement (from 1914 to 1924).The uncaring Easton tried to extricate himself from her infatuation with him and end their association by paying her off and ignoring her romantic gestures (the sending of flowers).Maggie shook Tracy and awakened her to the real-world, but when "John" couldn""t be brought back, they decided to pick him up and take him with hem in the van back to the shelter." Shreck then convinced Cobblepot to run for Mayor (while threatening to recall the current mayor) and promised to fulfill the half-human""s destiny that was carelessly discarded by his parents.Plot SynopsisThe story, a series of vignettes, was about a middle-class Norwegian immigrant family living on Larkin Street in San Francisco at the turn of the century (around 1910).