The story of a great, unequal love: Alfred Kubin, the renowned illustrator and author of the novel "The Other Side," and Emmy Haesele, the wife of a country doctor, who became an artist through Kubin. While for the womanizer Kubin, Haesele was just one of many lovers – their passionate liaison lasted hardly three years – the encounter changed her entire life. Although she nearly succumbed to this relationship and all the subsequent rejections, she preserved her love through all personal catastrophes until her death. Brita Steinwendtner narrates the life story of this extraordinary woman as a compelling historical document of the war-torn and fate-shaping 20th century, as a detailed biography that offers a different perspective on Alfred Kubin, and as a poetic narrative that describes the adventure of unconditional love in both joy and sorrow.