Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through l...
Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin's inenitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrich's subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at firt holds scant appeal, that is until Henriette discover she is suffering from a terminal illness
