In 1890, an eleven-volume memoir was privately published, an anonymous autobiography of unique importance in English literary history, not made available for public sale until 1966.

The author was not a novelist, yet he created a document of human life of greater relevance and modernity than many artists who consciously aspired for immortality. As a precursor to scientific studies in human sexual behavior by Freud, Kinsey, and Masters Johnson in the twentieth century, is work of painstaking accuracy, it is a act of courage.

This memoir explored every latitude of love, mapped and charted the world of sex, guided by a sense of wonder that overcame prejudice, a sense of uncompromising integrity that overcame all forms of hypocrisy, and whose humanistic philosophy, with its main principles of honesty and tolerance, form the basis of this film experience.