Josiane Pfeiffer

A man begs his mother for money after their family's fortune falls apart.

Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers.

A "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.