A spicy love story in a gothic setting. The great American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, his young wife Virginia and poetess Frances Osgood - a love triangle born of the author's imagination, but all the events described could well have happened in reality...

The furor created by Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" forces young, budding poet Frances Osgood to seek a meeting with her literary idol. She immediately falls under the dark charm of this mysterious and complex man, and a stormy and fast-paced romance begins between them. And when Edgar's fragile and sickly wife invades this idyll, wanting to make friends with her rival, Francis begins to fear that deceiving Mrs. Poe is as useless as trying to outwit death itself...