Mary Shelley is short of money after the publication of her famous novel. Despite the critical success of the work, the widow struggles to make ends meet and provide for her son's needs. One day, she makes a most astonishing discovery: the creature she had imagined in her novel has come to life, but this time in female form! Mary is then entrusted with a mission by the British secret services: to tame and make presentable this strange creature before Queen Victoria's big ball. The inventor of Frankenstein's monster will have to draw on her imagination to coax this resurrected fighter, whose body is marked with scars...