Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady`s twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he`ll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants.

Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?