In 1905 a nineteen-year-old girl is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich where she has arrived from Russia in desperate condition. The girl suffers from a severe form of hysteria and refuses to eat. A young doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time ever, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher, Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, which soars to the heights but also plunges to the most terrible depths of the last century.