It is at this point that the drama opens, revealing Salomé who yet remains an uncontaminated blossom in a wilderness of evil.
Though still innocent, Salome is a true daughter of her day, heiress to its passions and its cruelties. She kills the thing she loves; she loves the thing she kills, yet in her soul there shines the glimmer of the Light and she sets forth gladly into the Unknown to solve the puzzle of her own words