A tale of love, philosophy, eroticism and art, set in London and Venice, with Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights in the background.
Claudine is an art historian specializing in the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. Chris is a maritime engineer writing a PhD on gondola construction. They share a passion for interpreting the hidden language of symbols. When she discovers that she’s got terminally ill, she decides to spend her last days in Venice. Her obsession with the world of Bosch causes her and Chris to make the Garden’s visions real. Their perverse, sensual close-ups provide a counterpoint for their reflections on the theme of the body’s disintegration. Like Dante’s Beatrice, Claudine becomes Chris’ guide into a labyrinth of love, death, regret and redemption.