No Thoroughfare The Overture

In which a veiled lady, burdened by sorrow and mystery, seeks a nurse’s help on a moonlit November night at the Hospital for Foundling Children, revealing a tender yet tragic connection to an infant entrusted to the institution’s care. Years later, she returns timidly among the hospital’s wards, anxious yet hopeful, to find and identify the boy named Walter Wilding, touched by the quiet dignity and devoted routine of the place.