Karl is a rich young man with ambition and a desire for romantic and erotic adventure. He falls for Bertha, but is it true and lasting love or just a passing infatuation? Can the weight of Bertha’s love tip the scales in her favor, or will she plot revenge? Love and madness reign in this unusual tale of sexual lust, greed, mental illness, and personal destruction set in turn-of-the-century Sweden and loosely based on a true story.