Byron challenges each of the friends to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the creature of her imagination is the cause.
Meanwhile, Claire has Byron's baby, is estranged from him and barred from seeing her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one hedonistic, the other idealistic. The Shelleys move near Pisa.
Shooting locations included the Borizu Beach[es] (Asturias), Switzerland, and Venice.[2]
Reception
Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País declared Rowing with the Wind a "very ambitious film that almost always lives up to its ambition", falling short of being a masterpiece because of a lack of interest of a few scenes and because of the small presence of actress Lizzy McInnerny in the face of the "enormity of the tragic task that the film has in store" for her character.[3]
