Scoundrel? Genius? Madman? Edgar Allan Poe squanders his emerging notoriety on a strange poker bet in an 1840 New York literary club. He uproots his family to his childhood home in Richmond, on a desperate quest to revive the crumbling theatre where his mother once performed. Poe enlists the help of his family and friends, and even his rivals, to deliver poetic justice upon his enemies.
