London, 1824. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a washed-up opium addict whose grip on reality is slipping. In a Cambridge college library, a bullied undergraduate finds a strange annotation in a book of Coleridges poems. Across the sea, a young Sicilian discovers that his mother once had a liaison with Co...

London, 1824. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a washed-up opium addict whose grip on reality is slipping. In a Cambridge college library, a bullied undergraduate finds a strange annotation in a book of Coleridges poems. Across the sea, a young Sicilian discovers that his mother once had a liaison with Coleridge. It isnt long before their paths cross.