Fictionalizes the passionate eight-year relationship of Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, dramatizing the genesis of her classic horror novel, "Frankenstein.".
Provides background on some of history's man-made horrors, including Frankenstein, robots, mutants, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, slashers, Jack the Ripper, and others, and shares stories of real-life horrors.
Young Mary Godwin falls in love with the poet Percy Shelley, who sweeps her off to Europe despite her family's protests, but she soon realizes Percy's love is more of an obsession, and that obsession is beginning to endanger her life.