Overview
The story of the Pre-Raphaelite painters and writers is told in this dark, funny, and moving tale. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's love for his beautiful model Lizzy Siddal, the tragic love triangle of John Ruskin, Ruskin's wife Effie and the great painter John Everett Millais, Ruskin's later doomed love for the young Rose LaTouche and his subsequent madness, the lives of William Morris and his enigmatic wife Jane, and the poets Swinburne, and Christina Rossetti all intertwine.