Ruby Landry, the gothic family saga on TV: plot and cast

TOpcome tonight on Rai 2 at 21.20 ruby, first of four appointments of the Ruby Landry sagachoral history steeped in family mystery and intriguebased on the series of novels of the same name by V. C. Andrews. Gothic atmospheres and secrets buried in the past suck the viewer into a mystery set in 1960s America. Protagonists are Ruby and Giselletwin sisters played by Rachelle And Karina BannoAustralian actresses, twins in real life too.

rubythe plot

Ruby Landry she is a charming girl with a great talent for painting. After her mother’s death, she lives with her grandmother Catherinespiritual healer in the bayou, mysterious swamp of the delta mississipi, in Louisiana. ruby spends his simple and happy lifefull of love for her high school mate Paul Tate. But when grandma sees the niece and Pual kiss the problems begin: the grandmother tells the girl that Paul he is her half-brother (son of the same mother). She is shocked by it. The relationship of the two boys is immediately truncated, amid great suffering.

And everything falls apart when the grandmother falls ill. On her deathbed she reveals to her niece a hitherto hidden truth: hers father is a wealthy Creole who lives in New Orleans and she also has one twin sister with lives with his father. ruby, also to escape his alcoholic grandfather, decides to join his father and also meet his twin. She wears the most beautiful dress and part of her.

The kind father, the evil twin sister

TO New Orleans, ruby, dazed but determined, manages to track down her father. She stands in front Pierre Dumas (Gil Bellows), an elegant, kind and very rich man. He immediately welcomes her warmly. He is happy to have found her and the two establish a good bond. More complicated, on the other hand, are the relationships with the family that the father had created for himself.

His new partner, Daphne (Lauralee Bell) she is distant and skeptical, does not welcome the arrival of ruby. The twin is decidedly hostile Gisellewho immediately begins to tease his sister.

The situation in the house is full of tension. And Pierre he owes everyone an explanation. So he decides to say that ruby she had been kidnapped by the nanny and had kept the secret with Giselle so as not to traumatize her. She the latter at first believes the words of her father and she finds in these, almost a stimulus to be more and more hateful with the sisterwho reacts by making her a voodoo rite, recalling the knowledge of the grandmother. Relations between the two are very bad, but they get worse when ruby gets engaged to Beau (Ty Wood), friend of Giselle.

The other three films

The development of the story, and all the secrets it hides, are explored in the following three movies who treat the Ruby Landry saga.

They will always be broadcast in prime time and in first vision on Rai 2. The airing of Ruby’s pearl is scheduled for November 23rdthe one of Ruby’s fate for the November 30th. Then the last movie The hidden jewel will be on TV December 14th.

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