Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a loving man with a passion for floral freedom and botanical bliss, finds himself eternally trapped by his furious timidity. The Marquis de Sade, his freedom removed by his imprisonment, finds liberty through his boundless imagination. The two suffering philosophers are both too passionate to cope with life; the pair are disillusioned by society, yet rejected by society at the same time. The two solitary souls find themselves bickering and struggling through life, dreaming of freedom and liberty; their two lives embrace and entwine, tear apart, and come together again in a moment of heavenly peace. This is a tale of romance and misanthropy, and of sexual repression and erotic obsession; it is a meditation on the nature of transcendence and transgression.
