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At an inn in China, the innkeeper discovers that his daughter Iedi is interested in his servant Muri and orders Muri to leave. A Mandarin arrives looking for his long-lost son; Muri is revealed to be the son he seeks.
In seventeenth-century Scotland, Mary is being married to Douglas, although she loves William Ratcliff. Ratcliff’s father killed Mary’s mother after an affair, and their ghosts haunt him; he has already killed two men betrothed to Mary. After Douglas wounds Ratcliff in a duel, Ratcliff returns to Mary’s room. A song by her nurse Margaret drives him into a frenzy: he kills Mary and her father, then takes his own life. The ghosts of his parents appear and embrace.
At an inn in China, the innkeeper discovers that his daughter Iedi is interested in his servant Muri and orders Muri to leave. A Mandarin arrives looking for his long-lost son; Muri is revealed to be the son he seeks.
In seventeenth-century Scotland, Mary is being married to Douglas, although she loves William Ratcliff. Ratcliff’s father killed Mary’s mother after an affair, and their ghosts haunt him; he has already killed two men betrothed to Mary. After Douglas wounds Ratcliff in a duel, Ratcliff returns to Mary’s room. A song by her nurse Margaret drives him into a frenzy: he kills Mary and her father, then takes his own life. The ghosts of his parents appear and embrace.