In 1911 London, Robert McBride is the newly appointed Assistant Dean of the progressive Battersea Polytechnic and newly married to beautiful Prussian aristocrat, Maya.  Life has endless possibilities, but when Robert becomes infatuated with one of his male students, Killian, his life is thrown into turmoil.  When Maya’s manipulative cousin, Otto, seeks to exploit the situation for his own advantage, he triggers a chain of devastating events which prove as fatal as England’s descent to war.