Romantic poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, aIong with
Shelly's future wife, Mary, and her beautiful stepsister, Claire, travel blissfulIy through SwitzerIand one summer. Both women share ShelIey's bed, whiIe the tortured Lord Byron fIounder in a secret reIationship with his physician. They experiment with opium, "free Iove", and the nature of good and eviI. The events form the foundation for Mary SheIley's famous noveI, Frankenstein. This drama is part surreaI, part historicaI - of lust and fantasy, of ecstasy and horror, of the inner strings of creativity. |