A sensationalized retelling of the Rimbaud-Verlaine story, by the great French poet Arthur Rimbaud, during a brief burst of activity in the early 1870s when he was just a teenager. It is amazing Rimbaud found time to write anything at all since he was carrying on a torrid, Absinthe-soaked homosexual love affair with his mentor, the older not quite so great poet Paul Verlaine. This story chronicles the trials and tribulations of their self-destructive relationship and the great work that came out of it.