Love. Loyalty. Betrayal. 
An unexpected romance that would affect generations yet unborn.

In the year 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche, the most brilliant philosopher of the 19th century, was on the brink of creating his masterwork of the human spirit when he fell in love with the most provocative woman of the age, the vivacious and young Lou von Salomé—and the course of human history was changed forever.