In the Garden of Monsters

In 1948 Italy, model and artist Julia is hired by Salvador Dalí to serve as his muse for one week. Modeling as Proserpina (Persephone), she finds herself drawn into the surreal, haunting atmosphere of the Sacro Bosco, Italy’s Garden of Monsters, where she poses all over the shadowy, statue-filled property. Julia is both intrigued and repulsed as she begins to hear voices warning her to flee and then encounters their enigmatic host, Ignazio, who knows her better than she knows herself. Statues seem to move, spontaneous earthquakes shake the table, and Dalí is desperate for Julia to eat pomegranate seeds like the goddess she’s embodying. King’s (The Chef’s Secret) eerie third outing is full of history and art, feelings of déjà vu and dread, and secrets and references to Greek and Roman myth. Julia is at the center of it all, drawn in and repelled by her host, the Dalí couple, and various other members of their group. All is not as it seems at the palazzo, and Julia’s ties to Proserpina may be closer than she’d ever dreamed.