Robert McBride is a happy man.  Newly married to Maya, a beautiful Prussian aristocrat and newly appointed to a prestigious role in a thriving polytechnic, Robert’s life is good.  When he meets Killian, an engineering student, looking at artwork of naked swimmers he is shaken by a desire that consumes him and threatens all that he values. 

As tensions in Europe rise and his marriage disintegrates, how will love survive as war gets ever closer?