In the summer of 1807, Clemens Brentano stumbles into the most extreme love affair of his life. The woman, who, aged barely 17-years-old, throws herself at him with such terrifying brutality, is called Auguste Bussmann.
After more than thirty years of marriage, Martha Rimböck takes stock. She reckons up what her husband has done wrong during this time. Using an ingenious points system, she has noted every one of his transgressions in their life together, but has not left herself out either. Now she sees the time has come to settle their unequal accounts: she poisons him.
