The Student of Prague

Prague in the 1860s Balduin is a popular handsome student the best fencer in town in amicable rivalry with his friend Dahl for the affections of Lydia the innkeepers niece While the students are celebrating Lydias birthday the opera singer Julia Stella arrives at the inn and Balduins life begins to unravel He is immediately infatuated with the glamorous singer but she is already kept by an admirer the wealthy and foppish Baron Waldis How can a poor student hope to compete The mysterious Dr Carpis who also has ties to Julia and is jealous of the Baron intervenes But the price will be higher than Balduin can ever imagine He risks his sanity and his life perhaps his very soul haunted by his own reflection