A brief fling with fame. A lifetime of infamy. For two months in the summer of 1894, Alphonse Conway becomes the favourite of playwright, novelist and poet, Oscar Wilde. Following Wilde's conviction at the Old Bailey, Alphonse faces his own trials which haunt him from 16 to 40 and through the turbulent years of the Great War. For any hope at redemption, Alphonse must assess the character of his famous friend, and his own as he struggles to live an honest and authentic life in a time when his kind are anathema.