Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy. As time goes by, cracks begin to appear in the relationship. Sam becomes addicted to opium, while William's ego and ambition distance him further from his friend.

Muestra la destructiva relación entre Samuel Taylor Coleridge y William Wordsworth, dos extraordinarios poetas ingleses, en plena Revolución Francesa (finales del XVIII).