Herve Joncour is a 19th Century French silkworm smuggler and, importantly, a happily married man. While in Japan negotiating for his illegal cargo Herve becomes entranced by the concubine of a local baron, an obsession that even the barrier of language and culture cannot dampen, but the onset of war and Herve's increasingly suspicious wife will tie the unrequited lovers' hands. Based on Alessondo Baricco's novel, ‘Silk' is a visually sumptuous examination of love's many facets.