The famous psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe is dealing with one of the most mysterious and hopeless cases in his practice. His patient is the famous artist Robert Oliver, who tried to publicly destroy the masterpiece of the Metropolitan Museum - the painting "Leda". What prompted him to commit an act of vandalism? Why did he say that he did it for the sake of a woman? And what connects him with one of the most gifted artists of the 19th century - Beatrice de Clerval, who, at the height of her career, suddenly stopped painting? Doctor Marlowe is confused - Oliver categorically refuses to talk. Trying to find out the reasons for the strange behavior of the patient, Dr. Marlowe begins to meet people from his environment and unexpectedly plunges into the secrets of the past - the ominous and bewitching secrets of art, passion and crime...