During the hot, sweltering summer, Mike, a young American tourist goes looking for his missing friend in an isolated Spanish village. Here, he gets embroiled with an alluring local woman who soon becomes obsessed with him. Forced to escape, Mike soon finds that the horror is far greater than he could have ever imagined.

The real, passionate, epistolary love affair between two of the most brilliant minds of 19th-century Spain: Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez Galdós. A story of love, passion, and sex, ahead of its time.