Rowing with the Wind

[1] It concerns the English writer Mary Shelley and her circle.

In the summer of 1816, English poet Percy Shelley, his soon to be wife Mary Shelley (daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), and Mary's stepsister and companion Claire Clairmont take a holiday with Lord Byron and his physician John William Polidori at a villa rented by Byron at Lake Leman, Switzerland.

Byron challenges each of the friends to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein.

Meanwhile, Claire has Byron's baby, is estranged from him and barred from seeing her daughter.

Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one hedonistic, the other idealistic.