Seven women around Christiane Vulpius and Charlotte von Stein invent a poet. What begins as an amusing thought experiment evolves into a series of deceptions and intrigues that gain momentum. The fictional Johann Wolfgang von Goethe reveals himself as a successful model, and the conspirators find themselves unable to escape the spirit they summoned. Goethe is seen not as a literary heavyweight, but in contemporary attire through the eyes of his muses. A poet. A rumor in the form of a man. A grandiose chimera.