Observed by sensation-hungry tourists, eccentric poet Lord Byron and his personal physician, Dr. John Polidori in Swiss exile in the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva . Poet Percy Shelley is visiting with his fiancé Mary Godwin and her half-sister Claire Clairmont . Claire is Byron's mistress, taken by him because of his egomaniaon the one hand disgusted, on the other hand addicted to him. The awkward Polidori, for his part, is also in love with the lord, is supposed to write his biography and is often humiliated by him. Mary is reserved at first, as she initially doesn't know what to do with the decadent extravagance of the others. Percy Shelley is the only one who meets Byron at least roughly on an equal footing, as he is impressed by Shelley's poetic work.
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