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Synopsis:
A
speculative
account
of
the
life
of
Griet,
a
16-year-old
girl
who
appears
in
Johannes
Vermeer's
painting
of
the
same
title.
Set
in
17th
century
Holland,
Griet
is
employed
by
Vermeer
as
a
housemaid
to
care
for
his
six
children,
his
jealous
pregnant
wife
and
his
uncommunicative
mother-in-law.
Tensions
arise
when
Vermeer's
wife
suspects
intimacy
between
her
husband
and
the
girl--and
then
climax,
when
the
wife
discovers
that
Griet
borrowed
her
precious
pearl
earrings
to
sit
for
the
now
famous
portrait.
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