Living at the heart of Roman society, Catullus is obsessed with Clodia, the Lesbia of his most precious poems. And Clodia? Catullus is "her dear poet", but possibly not her only interest . . . Their Rome is a city of extremes - civilisation and violence are equals, murder is the easy option. In love and in hate, their story exposes the beauty and terrors of Roman life in the late Republic.