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The plot of the story is more complex, a British stock exchange's agent, the existing stable career and position, a happy family, is more than the middle, but infatuation with painting, like "was the devil body," suddenly leave home, to Paris to pursue the ideal of painting. He is in a foreign country is not only the body endure poverty and hunger, spirit also endure suffering. After some bizarre story, the hero, the last to leave the civilized world isolated from to Tahiti. He finally find the soul of the atmosphere of peace and is suitable for their own artistic temperament. He same native women live together, to create a picture and a picture of a shock to the later work. Before he contracted leprosy blind in their own home four murals performance a great work of the garden of Eden. But before death, he has ordered the indigenous women put the painting after his death.