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When young Lucian Miller visits the house of a friend it is everything he had long fantasised about; decay and grandeur, lofty rooms, dark red shadows and dust. The evening, however, is a disaster, and Lucian finds himself apparently alone with the sophisticated but troubled Miranda Honeyman. They shut all of the doors in an attempt to keep their problems out, but it soon becomes apparent that someone else may have access to the house. On the threshold of adulthood, in a heightening atmosphere of sexual uncertainty and violence, Lucian tries to make sense of what is happening around him.

Si l’œuvre éblouit, l’homme était insupportable. Charles Baudelaire ne respectait rien, ne supportait aucune obligation envers qui que ce soit, déversait sur tous ceux qui l’approchaient les pires insanités. Drogué, dandy halluciné, il n’eut jamais d’autre ambition que de saisir cette beauté qui lui ravageait la tête et de la transmettre grâce à la poésie. Dans ses vers qu’il travaillait sans relâche, il a voulu réunir dans une même musique l’ignoble et le sublime. Il a écrit cent poèmes qu’il a jetés à la face de l’humanité.

Charles Baudelaire is one of the greatest French poets. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), was deemed scandalous at the time because of its themes of sex and death, lesbianism, corruption, wine, and the oppressiveness of living. Its powerful imagery and ravaging use of the senses had many name him an unequaled master; the effect on fellow artists was "immense, prodigious, unexpected, mingled with admiration and with some indefinable anxious fear", while the regime of the Second Empire had Baudelaire prosecuted and fined for his "insult to public decency".