It’s 1816, ‘the year without a summer’, and Claire Clairmont is in hot pursuit of Lord Byron, the most famous poet of the age. Driven by a desire for fame, can she navigate her way between ambition and desire?

Accompanied by her sister, Mary Shelley, and the poet, Percy Shelley, they find Byron holed up in a villa on the shores of Lake Geneva, in self imposed exile having fled England under a cloud of scandal. With him is his personal physician, Dr John Polidori, himself a budding writer, desperate to ingratiate himself to the poet.

Confined to the Villa Diodati by constant storms, Byron challenges them all to write a horror story of their own, sowing the first literary seeds of ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘The Vampyre’.

And so the complex and unstable relationships of this notorious group of travellers unfold. Claire's own ambitions grow but she’s soon to discover that associations with fame come with a price.