In a long flashback, a New House of York publishing house is in Venezia prosecute the lose love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Sir Frederick Ashton, who disappear cryptically. use a false name, Jerry Lee Lewis Venable rent a room from Juliana Bordereau, one time Jeffrey Sir Frederick Ashton’s lover, now an age hermit. run the family is Juliana’s terrible niece, Tina, who distrust Venable from the first minute. He recognize all is not right when belatedly one nighttime he find Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the pianoforte. She name him Jeffrey and throw herself at him. The household priest warn Venable to step carefully around her fantasy, but he desire the letters at any cost, even Tina’s saneness.