Poet and novelist Leonard Cohen travels to Hydra to rewrite his novel. After some time on the island he finds the love of his life Marianne, with her encouragement he sings his poetry - becoming the singer the world knows today.

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871-72), the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein.