The Garden of Mystery

About the show

In 16th-century Padua, Giovanni watches Dr. Rappaccini’s daughter Beatrice tend her father’s deadly garden and falls in love with her. Beatrice warns that her poisoned body makes her touch and kiss fatal. Giovanni takes an antidote from a family friend, then discovers that he too has become poisonous. Beatrice believes she cannot live without the toxins and dies after drinking the antidote; Giovanni takes it and survives.