Paris, 1933.
It is there that she falls under the spell of the actress Paula Maxa, known as The Maddest Woman of All Time, who awakens An.
Stifled by her bourgeois marriage, she retreats into the midnight world of the Grand Guignol, the legendary theatre of horror and fear whose devoted patrons thrill at the macabre spectacles depicted on the black box stage.
In the aftermath of her love triangle with novelist Henry Miller and his dancer wife June, thirty-year-old Ana s Nin is left reeling.
Paris, 1933