Robert Walton is a failed writer who sets out to explore the North Pole in hopes of expanding scientific knowledge. During the voyage, the crew rescues a nearly frozen man named Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein sees himself in Walton and tells him his story, that of a young science student who creates an artificial man from fragments of corpses. This chilling gothic narrative has become the world's most famous work of horror and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human ambition.