Its cyclically-told tale of romantic yearning and pining for love was about an imaginary romance, embodied in the doomed, delusional (and illusory) relationship of the two romantic leads: a young neighbor girl""s (Fontaine) steadfast, sacrificial love for a self-absorbed, frivolous dilettante concert pianist (Jourdan).He is also expressly commanded to obey the company""s ""no fraternization"" rule - to dissociate sexual relations from the workplace - and to separate the laboring class from the executive/managerial top of he hierarchy:Now you""ve got to be aware every minute, whatever your job is, that you""re an Eastman.I tell her Santa Claus is a myth, and you bring her down here, and she sees hundreds of gullible children, meets a very convincing old man with real whiskers.He recalled a childhood incident when he was twelve.During a rainstorm and flood, he heroically saved the Kent farm, but consequently he blocked water wiped out the neighboring Lang farm.