Beautiful Place

On a patch of Sri Lanka’s exquisite
southern coast stands the Villa Hibiscus.
It is Padma’s home. The owner of the villa,
Gerhardt, is an elderly Austrian architect
to whom Padma was taken when young by
Sunny, her scheming father. He had hoped
to use his attractive child to entice the
wealthy new foreigner in the area.
Gerhardt, in turn, adopted Padma, paying
Sunny to stay away until she...