Gentle Spirit is a narrative style Contemporary Dance film based on the Novella A Gentle Creature sometimes also translated as The Meek One. This short novel was written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1876. The piece chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop. The story was inspired by a news report that Dostoevsky read in April 1876 about the suicide of a seamstress. Dostoevsky referred to it as a meek suicide that keeps haunting you for a long time.