Hailed as "the most romantic film of the year!" (Bill Zwecker FOX-TV) Academy AwardŽ winner Gwyneth Paltrow (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE) and Aaron Eckhart (ERIN BROCKOVICH) star in this sexy, seductively intriguing mystery.
Maud Bailey (Paltrow) and Roland Michell (Eckhart) are two dedicated literary scholars with nothing in common - except their obsession with the two Victorian poets they have devoted their lives to studying. But all that changes when a newly discovered cache of love letters reveals the two poets were entangled in a forbidden affair. Now, as Maud and Roland embark on a wildly romantic journey in search of the truth, the mystery of the past will engulf them, as the passions of the present possess them.