La princesse jaune

About the show

In Holland, Léna loves her cousin Kornélis, who is obsessed with Japan and a portrait of a Japanese woman named Ming. He drinks an opium potion and hallucinates that he is in Japan. Mistaking Léna for Ming, he declares his love, frightening her. After he wakes, Léna rebukes him for loving an imagined woman; he realizes his love for her and apologizes. They confess their feelings and reconcile.